Drylands, a Rural American SagaFamily values, hard won success, and tough love for tough times: when we talk about America as an image and an ideal it is generally the enduring reality of middle American virtue, deep roots, and rural life that we imagine. Focusing on Adams County in the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington, Drylands, a Rural American Saga is a pictorial essay documenting the reality underlying our national self portrait. Both an exception to and a paradigm of the