Memoir on water woes named Outstanding Western Book
CANYON—A University of Oklahoma professor’s memoir about the water crisis at his family farm in Kansas—and the surrounding region—is the 2022 Outstanding Western Book from the Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A&M University.
Dr. Lucas Bessire’s Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, a National Book Award finalist, is “an urgent and unsettling meditation on…