Fair Land, Fair Land facts for kids
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| Author | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Western |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company |
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Publication date
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1982 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-395-32511-0 |
| 813/.52 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3513.U855 F3 1982 |
Fair Land, Fair Land is a 1982 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. It is one in a sequence of six books dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the mountain men, to "the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present".
Of the series, Fair Land, Fair Land is third is story chronology, but was the last to be published. The sequence began with The Big Sky, followed by The Way West (which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950), These Thousand Hills, Arfive (1971), The Last Valley (1975), and Fair Land, Fair Land.
The first three books in chronological story sequence (but not in the sequence of publishing) — The Big Sky, The Way West, and Fair Land, Fair Land — are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in 1830 with Boone Caudill leaving Kentucky to become a mountain man and ending with the death of Caudill and later the death of Dick Summers in the 1870s.
In his "Author's note" at the beginning of the novel, Guthrie wrote that he had "sworn more than once to write no more about the early-day West and just as often have broken the vow." He wrote that with Fair Land, Fair Land he was breaking the vow again to fill the time gap, "roughly from 1845 to 1870," between The Way West and These Thousand Hills.
In its view of the white settlement of the American west, Fair Land, Fair Land is the bleakest book in the series. The most positively portrayed whites are mountain men and those who choose to live with the Native Americans and adopt their ways, such as Dick Summers and Hezekiah Higgins. Other whites range from settlers who don't realize they are despoiling an Eden, to destructively careless wealth seekers, and to deliberately evil murderers.
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In Spanish: A. B. Guthrie Jr. para niños
