{"id":22078,"date":"2014-05-20T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22078"},"modified":"2014-05-13T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T22:18:35","slug":"the-ogallala-road-by-julene-bair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-ogallala-road-by-julene-bair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ogallala Road by Julene Bair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1045302\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22079\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ogallala-road.jpg?resize=264%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ogallala road\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ogallala-road.jpg?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ogallala-road.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plains in <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1045302\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Ogallala Road.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas&#8217;s beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father&#8217;s wish and commandment, \u201cHang on to your land!&#8221; But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm has done: each growing season her family &#8211; like other irrigators &#8211; pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The rapidly disappearing aquifer is the sole source of water on the vast western plains, and her family&#8217;s role in its depletion haunts her. As traditional ways of life collide with industrial realities, Bair must dramatically change course.<\/p>\n<p>Updating the territory mapped by Jane Smiley, Pam Houston, and Terry Tempest Williams, and with elements of Cheryl Strayed&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=931081\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wild<\/em><\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1045302\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Ogallala Road<\/strong><\/em><\/a> tells a tale of the West today and points us toward a new way to love both the land and one another.<em> (description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plains in The Ogallala Road. Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas&#8217;s beautiful Smoky Valley. 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