This was a wonderful book that I won from Goodreads. This type of book just isn't written anymore and it should be. "Hard Country" is the multi-generational story of the Kerney family and their triumphs and tragedies as they settled the Old West. The novel reminds me of books like "Lonesome Dove" that got me hooked on reading years ago. It's been way too long since a book like this has been written! There was not one wasted page out of the 600+ that it took Michael McGarrity to tell this story. "Hard Country" is a book well worth reading; the only fault I can mention is that it ended.