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O Pioneers!
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O Pioneers!
Willa Cather`s O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father`s death. The story encompasses Alexandra`s difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl Lindstrom, and the tragic romance between her youngest brother, Emil, and a married woman. The setting is as important as the events of the story, however. Alexandra`s near-obsessive love for the huge sky and vast plains of Nebraska is part of what fuels the plot, and Cather`s chronicle of the prairie`s evolution from a raw and wild landscape to thriving farmland reflects her own love of the land and her admiration for the immigrants who worked it. O PIONEERS! is an early novel, and in later books Cather would become more skilled at dialogue and plotting, but the passionate conviction she brought to this novel secures its position as one of her greatest works.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Late in the 19th century, Jane Witherspoon, a Mormon, stands to inherit an enormous ranch along the Utah border with Arizona. Her problem is that fellow Mormon Elder Tull has plans to make her one of his wives, in which case she she would lose all rights to her land. Luckily, the lone cowboy known as Lassiter rolls into town, and faces Tull head-on.
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Summer Breeze
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Summer Breeze
In the five years since the massacre of Rachel Hollister`s family, she has remained in seclusion, conducting business through her foreman. But now her foreman is gravely wounded, and Rachel forces herself to accept the help of neighboring rancher Joseph Paxton, who gradually leads her to a renewed contact with the outside world. This Western historical romance is the sequel to KEEGAN`S LADY and part of Catherine Anderson`s bestselling Coulter series.
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The Wild Girl
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The Wild Girl
Like Jim Fergus's previous novel, ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN, this one looks back into the history of the American West to tell a story of tensions between Native Americans and whites. In THE WILD GIRL, an eighty-something photographer named Ned Giles recalls an episode from 1932 through the diaries he kept at the time. As a young man, Ned was part of an expedition to find and free a boy who was captured by the Apaches--using an Apache girl as ransom. Ned has photographed the girl, and her narrative combines with extracts from Ned's diaries to tell a story that resonates years later, and that lays bare some of the harsh truths about the American presence in the West.
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