The farmer's lawyer : the North Dakota nine and the fight to save the family farm Cover Image

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The farmer's lawyer : the North Dakota nine and the fight to save the family farm / Sarah Vogel.

Vogel, Sarah, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781635575262
ISBN: 1635575265
Physical Description: xxi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-388) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: The sowing. The platform -- The first farmer -- Cottonwood haven -- Cut, slash, chop -- The starve out -- A little bit of nothing -- Part II: The growing. The organizers -- Problem case -- The farmer's lawyer -- Here once the embattled farmers stood -- Time to make some law -- Exhaustion -- Competency of counsel -- Part III: The reaping. Bitter harvest -- If we eat, you shall eat -- Springing the trap -- Unity -- The dead chicken argument -- The front steps of the courthouse -- Nothing but the truth -- Wouldn't Bill Langer be proud -- Discovery -- The Biblical injunction -- Part IV: The saved seed. There is one bright spot where the people rule -- Epilogue: Strength from the soil.