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A love affair unfolds as problems hits a family group farm on the high plains. Julene Bair has inherited part of an farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas' beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family group, provide her child with the daddy he dreams about, and maintain the Bair farm for another generation, honoring her own father's wish and commandment, "Hang on to your land!" But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair farm has done: each growing season her family - like other irrigators - pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The swiftly disappearing aquifer is the only real source of water on the great traditional western plains, and her family's role in its depletion haunts her. As traditional ways of life collide with professional realities, Bair must drastically change course. Upgrading the territory mapped by Jane Smiley, Pam Houston, and Terry Tempest Williams, and with elements of Cheryl Strayed's Crazy, The Ogallala Road tells an account of the Western today and items us toward a new way to love both the land and each other.
