02378cam a2200277 4500 2614032068 TxAuBib 20251105120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781666623079 1666623075 cd5c6428-2a56-44ba-9993-ad24dacd2f9f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9157481 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bolstad, Erika. Windfall [Bridges Audiobook] : The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her. Dreamscape Media, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 280MB. At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more: their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land?and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. Their family, Erika learned, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history. Anna left no letters or journals, and very few photographs of her had survived. But Erika was drawn to the young woman who never walked free of the asylum that imprisoned her. As a journalist well versed in the effects of fossil fuels on climate change, Erika felt the dissonance of what she knew and the barely-acknowledged whisper that had followed her family across the Great Plains for generations: we could be rich. Desperate to learn more about her great-grandmother and the oil industry that changed the face of the American West forever, Erika set out for North Dakota to unearth what she could of the past. What she discovers is a land of boom-and-bust cycles and families trying their best to eke out a living in an unforgiving landscape, bringing to life the ever-present American question: What does it mean to be rich? Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-11-03 20:00:03. Penning, Marni. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cd5c6428-2a56-44ba-9993-ad24dacd2f9f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)