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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9780893011550 ISBN: 089301155X Label: University of Idaho Press Manufacturer: University of Idaho Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 408 Publication Date: 1992-08 Publisher: University of Idaho Press Studio: University of Idaho Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A random, blurry, dream sequence that never ends!I have enjoyed extremely some other works by H. L. Davis, most notably the novel Winds of Morning and the beautifully executed short story, "The Homestead Orchard." It was with pleasurable anticipation that I obtained Davis's prizewinning magnum opus. But this monstrosity totally surprised me. The rendering of Oregon's history and geography is too far removed from the truth for a novel that is supposed to be a fanciful tapestry of Oregon's history and geography--it's so fanciful as to ... Read More Rating:  - An Oregonian Saga - Well DoneA well-told tale of settling of Oregon in the first decade of the 20th Century. This Pulitzer Prize winning novel captures the spirit of the times as those hardy pioneers struggle to settle a difficult land. Mr. Davis' wry humor makes this a reader's delight. Having lived in the general area as a youth I found many of the incidents sounding like the seemingly endless tales that my father and his collegues would spend hours swapping. Rating: - Very enjoyable storyThe book tells and interesting story of a young man in southern and eastern Oregon in about 1910 after the big pioneer rush. Very well written with good characters. It won the Pulitzer prize in 1935. Rating: - an absorbing account of a little known period in OregonThis book was impossible to put down. It is an absorbing novel set in (apparently) early 1900s Oregon. It is well researched as to the history and conditions prevailing in a country always hard to live in. And it is a rollicking good story. 
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