| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota -- Fiction.
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African American pioneers -- South Dakota -- Fiction.
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South Dakota -- Fiction.
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Pastoral fiction.
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Western stories.
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FICTION -- Westerns.
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African American pioneers. (OCoLC)fst00799302
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Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
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South Dakota. (OCoLC)fst01204322
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Pastoral fiction.
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Western stories.
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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 bk.) |
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9780585266350 (electronic bk.) |
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