![]() ![]() The weather is bad enough but the federal government did nothing but compounded the problem. There is no way for the reader to understand the underlying problems dealing with the likes of a drought or any other natural disaster unless you have lived it. They demanded to make the final decisions and when it was the wrong decision they blamed the farmer. The ever present second guessing by them was beyond discription. I became very depressed reading this book because it brought up long repressed deep feelings of resentment towards the FHA bureaucrats. I like so many of Kelton's character dealt with and suffered from the very repressive federal farm program. ![]() I didn't farm or ranch in west Texas but I did in North Central Missouri during the late 60's to the late 80's. The Time It Never Rained is as good if not better than Grapes of Wrath. I rank Elmer Kelton with the likes of Steinbeck. ![]() Crops dried up, and fertile soil dissolved into clouds of yellow. I have never read a book that moved me like this one. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight on his own grounds. 'A Tom Doherty Associates Book.' Originally published: 1973. Maybe the best book I have ever read/listened to. ![]()
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