Godfrey St. Peter has finished his great history and moved with his family into a new house, yet he cannot give up the attic study of the ugly old one. As his daughters’ marriages and new money unsettle him, the novel turns to the story of Tom Outland, the gifted young student who once found an ancient cliff city on a New Mexico mesa.
One of Cather’s finest novels, an unusual three-part study of middle age, inheritance and the pull of the Southwest. Download the free EPUB.