Reprint. Originally published: New York: McCall, 1970; afterword copyright 1994.

Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written

The author was seven when her parents began to homestead an isolated 320-acre farm on the western plains. She tells the story through her eyes as a sensitive, f

"Sanora Babb's novel, long out of print, is almost entirely autobiographical in origin and continues her story begun in the memoir, An Owl on Every Post. The in

Thanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), which might hav