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Author
Series
[Awakening land trilogy] volume 1-3
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
As a small girl, Sayward Wheeler and her family walk from Pennsylvania to the wilderness of the Ohio valley where they suffer many hardships and witness the rapid development of the area.
2) The trees
Author
Series
[Awakening land trilogy] volume 1
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
The Luckett family, pioneers from Pennsylvania, face the hardships and unknown perils of America's forest wilderness during their journey westward.
3) The fields
Author
Series
[Awakening land trilogy] volume 2
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
The Fields continues the saga of the Luckett family that began in The Trees. In The Fields, the oldest daughter, Sayward, has begun the long process of carving a small farm out of the forest. She bears eight children and weathers numerous challenges in this novel, which gives an excellent sense of what pioneer life was really like.The trilogy earned Richter immediate acclaim as a historical novelist. The Town won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in...
4) The town
Author
Series
[Awakening land trilogy] volume 3
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The story of a pioneer family and the transition they have to make as urban areas begin to spread in the 1800s.
Author
Publisher
Time
Pub. Date
c1965.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1936, this novel presents in epic scope the conflicts in the settling of the American Southwest. Set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, The Sea of Grass concerns the often violent clashes between the pioneering ranchers, whose cattle range freely through the vast sea of grass, and the farmers, or "nesters," who build fences and turn the sod. Against this background is set the triangle of rancher Colonel Jim Brewton, his unstable...
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