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  • The Lost Traveler

    by Sanora Babb ...
    An autobiographical novel, long out of print, continues Sanora Babb's story as begun in her memoir, An Owl on Every Post. Set in Kansas in the early 1930s, it is a rich character study of a classic American individualist and his family. The father, a complex and magnetic man, is portrayed from the perspective of his brave and proud daughter, Robin. Against the dark background of his declining ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel

    A Novel

    by Sanora Babb ...
    Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience.Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939. Editor Bennett Cerf planned to publish this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • An Owl On Every Post

    by Sanora Babb ...
    The author was seven when her parents began to homestead an isolated 320-acre farm on the western plains. She tells the story through her eyes as a sensitive, fearless young girl who came to love the wind, the vastness, the mystery and magic in the ordinary. This evocative memoir of a pioneer childhood on the Great Plains is written with the lyricism and sensitivity that distinguishes all of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    An Owl on Every Post

    by Sanora Babb ...
    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    Sanora Babb experienced pioneer life in a one-room dugout, eye-level with the land that supported, tormented and beguiled her; where her family fought for their lives against drought, crop-failure, starvation, and almost unfathomless loneliness. Learning to read from newspapers that lined the dugout' s dirt walls, she grew up to be a journalist, then a writer of unforgettable books about the Great ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Whose Names Are Unknown

    by Sanora Babb ...
    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience.This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • On the Dirty Plate Trail

    Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps

    by Sanora Babb, Dorothy Babb ...
    Series series Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series
    Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration photographers such as ... Read more

    $28.49 USD