The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer /
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.
The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer / by Oscar Micheaux ; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Learthen Dorsey. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1994. - 1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages) : illustrations
Originally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi).
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.
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Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 --Fiction.
FICTION--Westerns.
Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota--Fiction.
African American pioneers--South Dakota--Fiction.
South Dakota--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Pastoral fiction.
Western fiction.
Novels.
Electronic books.
Pastoral fiction.
Western stories.
PS3525.I1875 / C66 1994eb
813/.52
The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer / by Oscar Micheaux ; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Learthen Dorsey. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1994. - 1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages) : illustrations
Originally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi).
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.
0585266352 9780585266350
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 --Fiction.
FICTION--Westerns.
Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota--Fiction.
African American pioneers--South Dakota--Fiction.
South Dakota--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Pastoral fiction.
Western fiction.
Novels.
Electronic books.
Pastoral fiction.
Western stories.
PS3525.I1875 / C66 1994eb
813/.52