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The desert of wheat : a novel / by Zane Grey ... ; illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5944
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grey, Zane, 1872-1939, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial Workers of the World--Fiction.
- Industrial Workers of the World.
- World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Northwest, Pacific--Fiction.
- Northwest, Pacific.
- Pacific Northwest.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 376, [2] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grosset & Dunlap publishers, [not before 1920]
- Summary:
- In the midst of World War I, Kurt Dorn cannot agree with his German-born father that America is making a mistake by siding with Great Britain. Meanwhile area farmers come into conflict with the IWW, which doesn't want the area's wheat to go to support the troops.
- Notes:
- Terminus post quem for publication from latest date of first publication of works advertised at end of volume.
- Plates facing title leaf and pages 110, 118 and 218.
- "Zane Grey's novels": Page [378].
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- OCLC:
- 1282180299
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