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LoC No.: 14016470
Title: Winning the Wilderness
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Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Winning the Wilderness" by Margaret Hill McCarter is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story explores the challenges and triumphs of frontier life, focusing on themes of perseverance, familial struggles, and the quest for personal autonomy in a burgeoning America. The narrative revolves around Asher Aydelot, a young man caught between his past life in Ohio and his aspirations for a future in the wild territories of the West. At the start of the book, Asher Aydelot returns to his family home after serving in the Civil War and finds himself in conflict with his father's expectations for his future. His father, Francis, desires for Asher to take over the family farm and settle down in Cloverdale, but Asher's heart longs for the wide-open spaces of the West, where he envisions building a new life alongside his love, Virginia Thaine. As they navigate familial duties, ambitions, and their own desires, the couple faces the daunting realities of pioneering life, including isolation and the struggle against a fierce wilderness. The opening chapters depict their evolving relationship against a backdrop of historical events, setting the stage for a compelling journey of transformation and growth in a harsh yet beautiful landscape. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 81.1 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Author: McCarter, Margaret Hill, 1860-1938
Illustrator: Marchand, J. N.
EBook No.: 27505
Published: Dec 12, 2008
Downloads: 157
Language: English
Subject: Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
LoC No.: 14016470
Title: Winning the Wilderness
Credits:
Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Winning the Wilderness" by Margaret Hill McCarter is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story explores the challenges and triumphs of frontier life, focusing on themes of perseverance, familial struggles, and the quest for personal autonomy in a burgeoning America. The narrative revolves around Asher Aydelot, a young man caught between his past life in Ohio and his aspirations for a future in the wild territories of the West. At the start of the book, Asher Aydelot returns to his family home after serving in the Civil War and finds himself in conflict with his father's expectations for his future. His father, Francis, desires for Asher to take over the family farm and settle down in Cloverdale, but Asher's heart longs for the wide-open spaces of the West, where he envisions building a new life alongside his love, Virginia Thaine. As they navigate familial duties, ambitions, and their own desires, the couple faces the daunting realities of pioneering life, including isolation and the struggle against a fierce wilderness. The opening chapters depict their evolving relationship against a backdrop of historical events, setting the stage for a compelling journey of transformation and growth in a harsh yet beautiful landscape. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 81.1 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Author: McCarter, Margaret Hill, 1860-1938
Illustrator: Marchand, J. N.
EBook No.: 27505
Published: Dec 12, 2008
Downloads: 157
Language: English
Subject: Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.