| Notes: Endpaper edges slightly faded, otherwise an excellent copy. 1978 Full-Leather. 362 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-panel illustration preceding title page and full-page illustrations in text by Conrad Hack. The third novel in Conrad Richter's Awaking Land trilogy, continues the story of frontier woman Sayward Wheeler and her family. The focus of this book is on the dramatic changes to the town and region with rapid development of the settlement into a thriving town, with a variety of businesses and industry. She becomes wealthy by pioneer standards by selling off parcels of her own land to newcomers. |