Asked to write the history of Vandemark Township, Iowa, its first settler tells his own story instead: a canal-boat boyhood in New York, the trek west in search of his lost mother, the girl Virginia who knelt beside him, and the claiming and breaking of the prairie as settlers poured onto the land in the 1850s.
A classic of Midwestern pioneer fiction from 1922, full of homely humour and hard-won detail. Download the free EPUB.