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The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning by Julene Bair

By Julene Bair

A love affair unfolds as hindrance hits a kin farm at the excessive plains

Julene Bair has inherited a part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s attractive Smoky Valley. She skill to create a kin, supply her son with the daddy he longs for, and safeguard the Bair farm for the following new release, honoring her personal father’s want and commandment, “Hang directly to your land!” yet a part of her legacy is a percentage of the ecological damage the Bair Farm has performed: each one starting to be season her family—like different irrigators—pumps over 200 million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The quickly disappearing aquifer is the only real resource of water at the colossal western plains, and her family’s position in its depletion haunts her. As conventional methods of lifestyles collide with commercial realities, Bair needs to dramatically swap course.

Updating the territory mapped through Jane Smiley, Pam Houston, and Terry Tempest Williams, and with parts of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, The Ogallala street tells a story of the West this day and issues us towards a brand new option to love either the land and one another.

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I’m not proud of that, but there it is. Why does he consider that a fault? I wondered. I did take pride in my independence. When I’d told him about going back to Kansas to have Jake after my second marriage ended, had I given him the mistaken impression that I was of a more dependent nature? But courtship is a fine institution, he added. Had he been trying to warn me? I must have written something disparaging about conservative politicians, because he also said, I can tell from your last letter that we see things differently in some regards.

I understood what had motivated him. After my grandmother Carlson passed away, my parents traded their share of her land for land closer to my father’s other holdings. Although there was an old house on the new land, Dad didn’t think that one suitable for Mom. ” Dirt falling off the ceiling, he often recalled. Christ! His father had been successful too and could have built Grandma Bair the big stucco house that I loved romping through on holiday visits much sooner than he had. Sometimes Mom regretted leaving the house she’d grown up in, but Dad didn’t seem to know what they’d sacrificed.

He grinned. “Tomorrow is also a whole new day. ” The room was freezing, and I couldn’t find a thermostat. After vainly searching the closets and drawers for an extra blanket, I lay awake and alone on the giant bed, less certain than I’d been since we met. It had happened twice now. He’d offered then withheld himself, promising to meet by the fountain and waiting instead on the mezzanine, now tantalizing me with the greatest kiss of my life, then leaving. I had feared I wouldn’t want him. I now knew that I did.

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