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An award winning book with amazing center, about living on the prairie because it's seldom been observed When Rachel, chosen assist in a Detroit boardinghouse, falls in love with Isaac, the boardinghouse owner's boy, he makes her a discount: he'll marry her, but only when she gives up her 160 miles in the Homestead Work so he may increase his share. She confirms, and together they share their claim in the forebodingly stunning South Dakota Badlands. Fourteen years later, in summer time of 1917, the cows are bellowing with desire. It has not rained in weeks, and products have evaporated.