TY  - BOOK
AU  - Micheaux,Oscar
TI  - The conquest: the story of a Negro pioneer 
SN  - 0585266352
AV  - PS3525.I1875 C66 1994eb
U1  - 813/.52 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Micheaux, Oscar,
KW  - FICTION
KW  - Westerns
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - South Dakota
KW  - Fiction
KW  - African American pioneers
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Pastoral fiction
KW  - Western fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Western stories
N1  - Originally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913; Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi)
N2  - 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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