The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer / Oscar Micheaux ; introduction by Jayna J. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Givens Collection (Series)

The Givens collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American pioneers--Fiction.

African American pioneers.

South Dakota--Fiction.

South Dakota.

Genre:

Fiction.

Autobiographical fiction.

Western stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxviii, 288 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Washington Square Press, [2003]

Summary:

"The Conquest, published in 1913, is the first of seven novels written by Oscar Micheaux, better known as a prolific pioneer African-American filmmaker. This novel, along with two that followed, The Forged Note in 1915 and The Homesteader in 1917, mirrors Micheaux's experience as a black pioneer of the American West. The son of former slaves, his family had settled in Kansas as a part of the Exoduster movement in the post-Reconstruction era." "Micheaux tells the story of a brave homesteader, Oscar Devereaux, whose dream is to tame 1,000 acres of land and establish himself as an example of success for his people; hence, The Conquest. He secures the land but is overwhelmed by his struggles with drought, loneliness, and a troubled marriage."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Discontent

Spirit of the Pioneer

Leaving Home

A Maiden

Chicago, Chasing a Will-o-the-Wisp

The P

n Company

"Go West Young Man and Grow Up With the Country"

"And Where Is Oristown?" The Town on the Missouri

Oristown, the "Little Crow" Reservation

Far Down the Pacific

The Proposal

The Return

Ernest Nicholson

The Oklahoma Grafter

Dealin' in Mules

The Homesteaders

Imaginations Run Amuck

The Surveyors

"Which Town Will the R. R. Strike?"

Megory's Day

Ernest Nicholson's Return

Comes Stanley, the Chief Engineer

In the Valley of the Keya Paha

The Outlaw's Last Stand

The Boom

The President's Proclamation

Where the Negro Fails

"And the Crowds Did Come"

The Scotch Girl

The Battle

The Sacrifice

Race Loyalty

The Breeds

In the Valley of the Dog Ear

Ernest Nicholson Takes a Hand

The McCralines

A Long Night

The Survival of the Fittest

East of State Street

An Uncrowned King

A Snake in the Grass

The Progressives and the Reactionaries

Sanctimonious Hypocrisy

Beginning of the End

The Mennonites

The Drouth

A Year of Coincidences

"And Satan Came Also".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xxv).

Other Format:

Online version: Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951. Conquest.

ISBN:

0743460588

9780743460583

OCLC:

52297377

Online:

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