| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi). |
| Note |
Originally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913. |
| Summary |
The novel portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen children, Devereaux leaves home to work in the Chicago stockyards and finally graduates to the job of porter in a Pullman railway car. He is persoable, industrious, and frugal with a purpose. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. His object is not speculation for quick profit but the cultivation of property he can call his own. He plows and sows and sweats, and by the age of twenty-five has reaped an estate worth $20,000. Success is sweet, self-respect is sweeter. But if the calamities he is exposed to as a homesteader are severe, so are those brought on by marriage to the passive daughter of a dominating preacher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota -- Fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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South Dakota. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
African American pioneers -- South Dakota -- Fiction.
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African American pioneers. |
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South Dakota -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Pastoral fiction.
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Western stories.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951. Conquest. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1994 0803282095 (DLC) 94006243 (OCoLC)29877087 |
| ISBN |
0585266352 (electronic book) |
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9780585266350 (electronic book) |
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0803282095 |
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