Far From Home Author:Schlissel, Gibbens, & Hampsten Far From Home offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of three families on the Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico and North Dakota frontiers. That intimacy shatters any lingering nostalgia for the frontier as a landscape of assured economic success or family stability. This is a stunning contribution both to family history and to the history of th... more »e U.S. frontiers.« less