ABSTRACT
Meridel LeSeuer, born in 1900, is still writing and publishing works about the land and the people of the Midwest. In 1945, she published North Star Country, and in a chapter called “Drought” she recreates her bus trip across the Dakotas in 1930. The chapter ends with the painful image of a family that has been evicted from their farm. LeSeuer, however, believes in the ability of rural people to overcome disasters. At the conclusion of North Star Country she writes that:
