In the prairie town of Harvey, Kansas, a generation grows up as the frontier settlement becomes an industrial city. Grant Adams turns his back on comfort to lead the town’s mill and mine workers, while the gifted lawyer Henry Fenn chooses wealth and power, and Margaret Müller and the townspeople around them live out the consequences of greed, love and idealism.
A large, earnest novel by the famous Emporia editor, steeped in Progressive Era hopes for American democracy. Download the free EPUB.