Great Plains Homesteaders (Discover the Great Plains)Richard Edwards offers a concise and colorful overview of our country's successful experiment in populating the Plains with permanent settlers. Every homesteader's experience was different, as particular and distinct as the people were themselves. Yet their collective story, with all its hardships and toil, its ambitions and setbacks, its fresh starts and failures and successes, is central to the American experience. 198 pages pb