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Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her Spiral-Bound | January 17, 2023

Erika Bolstad

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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

Author Erika Bolstad was shocked to learn she had inherited mineral rights in North Dakota in the throes of an oil bonanza. Determined to unearth the story behind her unexpected inheritance, she followed the trail to her great-grandmother, Anna, who her family had painted to be a courageous homesteader who paved her way in the unforgiving American West.

But, Bolstad discovers a darker truth about Anna than her family had ever shared. With journalistic rigor, she unearths a history of environmental exploitation and genocide as well as the modern-day consequences of the Great Plains Dream: we could be rich.

Publisher: Sourcebooks
Original Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1728246938
Item Weight: 1.71 lbs
Dimensions: 6.0 x 1.1 x 9.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 101 to 500 ratings
"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

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.