Free land / Rose Wilder Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Farmers--Fiction.

Farmers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

332 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Summary:

In the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to claim three hundred acres of grassland. Rose Wilder Lane tells of their struggle to survive with such force that Free Land has become a classic frontier novel. The young couple experience cyclones, droughts, and blizzards that isolate them for days in their sod shanty and endanger their livestock. The simple pleasures of home cooking, horse trading, and socializing interrupt work, here described in its wealth of variety. In every detail, Free Land comes to life because Lane grew up in the time and place of which she writes. The book embodies her belief that "living is never easy, that all human history is a record of achievement in disaster, and that our great asset is the valor of the American spirit."

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1938.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has two printed paper slips advertising this work laid in.

ISBN:

0803279140

9780803279148

OCLC:

10751782

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