With new information in a significant chapter, some compressing to other areas of the text, and other slight changes this is an updated edition of the book historian Joseph A. Amato has called a "Tour de Force." It's a history of life in the rural Midwest in a transitional period in American history, and larger world events' impact on local place.

About the author: Dana Yost was a newspaper editor and writer for twenty-nine years. He was born in Lincoln County, Minnesota, and grew up in Minnesota, graduating from Minnesota High School in 1980. He received a degree in creative writing/ literature from Southwest Minnesota State University. He is a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize in poetry, a winner of the Minnesota Newspaper Association Columnist of the Year award and other major journalism awards.  

Image description: The cover has a black background. The title is printed in big, bold, light grey letters at the top of the cover. Underneath the title there is a black-and-white photograph of a street in a midwestern town. The author's name is printed at the bottom of the cover.