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The Desert of Wheat
Zane Grey
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Near at hand Lenore saw the short immature dirty-whitish wheat, and she realized that it was ruined.
"It's been gettin' worse, Jake," remarked Anderson. "Most of this won't be cut at all. An' what is cut won't yield seedlings. I see a yellow patch here an' there on the north slopes, but on the most part the Bend's a failure."
"Father, you remember Dorn's section, that promised so well?" asked Lenore.
"Yes. But it promised only in case of rain. I look for the worst," replied Anderson, regretfully.
"It looks like storm-clouds over there," said. . . Read More
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Having long flights of four or more hours makes it easy to do some good reading. I used our trip to Puerto Rico to do that and I thoroughly enjoyed this Zane Gray read. I especially enjoyed its view of unions and also the views of people who worked hard and felt that they were not sharing the benefi
I started reading Zane Grey books when I found a copy of The Man of the Forest in Grandma's attic. I was an instant fan, and I have learned a lot from him. The rah-rah Americanism seems naïve after enduring 4 years of Trumpism, and it is bitter to know that the world did not learn the lesson of WWI
good camping reading.... read it while in eastern Washington which gave me some perspective as far as climate, etc. was concerned. Interesting take on the labor unrest caused by the IWW prior to WWI.
Read as part of the Zane Grey Mega Pack. This novel covers the time period as the United States was preparing to enter WWI. The story takes place in the Pacific Northwest, and centers around a wheat farm, the arrival of labor unions to farm workers, and the young hero, who is a first generation Germ
The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey contained several surprising locales that were not typical for this author, namely eastern Washington state, New York, and France. The time period for this novel is the beginning of World War I, which Grey must have experienced as an American reading the newspapers o
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This is one of the best books I have read in a while. Granted many of my recent books have been fluff, entertainment only books. This book details the struggle of a young wheat farmer at the beginning on WWI. He is of German heritage and struggles with that as well as Labor Unions and the love he fe