Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

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Erika Bolstad

Windfall

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The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Erika Bolstad

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Sourcebooks, Inc
17 January 2023

Memoirs; Global warming; Local history

After receiving a mysterious inheritance, journalist Erika Bolstad sets out on a tumultuous journey through her family's buried past and its dark connection to the Promised Land of the American West

Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await...

At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna- she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more. Their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land-and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. Their family, Erika learned, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history.

Anna left no letters or journals, and very few photographs of her had survived. But Erika was drawn to the young woman who never walked free of the asylum that imprisoned her. As a journalist well versed in the effects of fossil fuels on climate change, Erika felt the dissonance of what she knew and the barely-acknowledged whisper that had followed her family across the Great Plains for generations- we could be rich. Desperate to learn more about her great-grandmother and the oil industry that changed the face of the American West forever, Erika set out for North Dakota to unearth what she could of the past. What she discovers is a land of boom-and-bust cycles and families trying their best to eke out a living in an unforgiving landscape, bringing to life the ever-present American question- What does it mean to be rich?

By: Erika Bolstad
Imprint: Sourcebooks, Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 28mm
ISBN: 9781728246932
ISBN 10: 1728246938
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 17 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

ERIKA BOLSTAD is a journalist and documentary filmmaker in Portland, Oregon. Her work on climate change has appeared in the Washington Post, Scientific American, and many other publications.

Reviews for Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

A vital exploration of the long history of abuse against women, the land, and the weight of inheritance, told in gripping prose. Bolstad's Windfall comes at a crucial time when our country is at a reckoning with its own dark history of conquest and extraction. -- Taylor Brorby, author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land -- 85815 The author effectively examines the political, economic, and environmental issues involved in the production of energy across the country... An engrossing look at the effects of the American oil and gas industry through the lens of family history. -- Kirkus Reviews -- 86265