The Cost of Free Land

The Cost of Free LandGrowing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her immigrant family's origins. Her great great grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, ultimately settling on a 160 acre homestead in South Dakota. Over the next few decades, despite tough years on a merciless prairie and multiple setbacks, the Sinykins became an American immigrant