Reapers of the Dust - Borealis Books Author:Lois Phillips Hudson First published in 1965, her childhood recollections of living in North Dakota are what Lois Phillips Hudson used to spin these unusual, moving stories of simple, joyful days and of continuing battles with hostile elements on the Great Plains during the 1930s. Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland during ... more »the grim years of the Great Depression.« less