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Free Land
Rose Wilder Lane
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Description for Free Land
Paperback. A classic frontier novel Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 202 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803279148
SKU
V9780803279148
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Free Land
"A fine, full-bodied novel. . . . The descriptions are powerful realism, especially those of the beauty and the terror of the untamed plains."—Christian Science Monitor "Free Land is an exciting story about human beings fighting against huge odds."—New Republic