Conrad Richter
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and...
3) 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.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Secure in her Victorian mansion, in?her? Pennsylvania town, flying her flag in defense of principle and old-time decorum, Miss Alexandria Morley takes on and outclasses the mighty coal company (she's caught them cheating on taxes); civilizes her roughhewn young doctor (good character is no license for crudity); copes patiently (family obligations are sacred) with the poor old cousin who is a tidal wave of garrulous idiocy; stands firm against the...
5) The lady
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c1957.
Language
English
Description
Ellen, an enigmatic lady, is at the center of a rivalry between sheepmen and cattlemen in early nineteenth-century New Mexico.
6) 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...
7) 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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Brewton's cattle empire includes a million acres of grazing land. Lutie marries him and they have a daughter Sara. Lutie goes alone to Denver where she and lawyer Chamberlain conceive a son Brock whom Jim later accepts with resignation. Long afterward Brock is killed by a posse and Susie brings Lutie and Jim together once more.