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Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with...
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Personalities and events of the Western range cattle industry from 1870 to 1890, seen as largely financed by scions of wealthy Boston, New York and Philadelphia families.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century the Eastern financier, attracted by the propaganda of individual promoters, the blandishments of public relations men and business acquaintances, invested heavily in the Western range cattle industry. This book is the story of these men...
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