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Not so long ago I stumbled on the little book by a man who lived in a place where people haven’t and likely shouldn’t even try to live. It’s a memoir. Don’t look for it in bookstores. You won’t find it.
Homesteading in the South Dakota Badlands, 1912, The Last Best West, a tiny little book of deeply lodged memories put to paper by a man named Ernest G. Boermann it’s his story.
And his mother’s. Anne Rubin Boermann was a pioneer. Anne Rubin was, her son says, a most extraordinary woman,” a description more understated than anything, living or dead, on the wide prairie she inhabited. Listen: