Prairie Widow (Evans Novel of the West) - Hardcover
A story of the persistence and courage that turned the American frontier into a civilization follows Jennifer Vandermeer as she treks with her husband from the settled East to the wild West
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Harold Bakst was a master teacher who taught at Bucknell University, Iona College, and Pace University among others. He wrote three other novels including The Strange Voyage of Kian the Mariner. He lived in Pennsylvania.
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A western devoid of violence and other typical trappings of the genre, this first novel seems clearly aimed at women readers--yet, equally devoid of any female sensibility, it has very limited appeal. In the 1870s, Jennifer Vandermeer, her husband, Walter, and their two children arrive in Four Corners, Kans., after an arduous journey from Ohio in a covered wagon. The pitiless climate, the shabby town with its false-fronted buildings and the endless sea of prairie grass fill Jennifer with horror; she snubs her new neighbors and longs for her old home. Meanwhile Walter insists on planting unsuitable crops and then works himself unceasingly until he is stricken with a fever and dies. Asked to teach school, Jennifer equivocates and lays plans to return east--plans interrupted by would-be suitors, prairie fires, unscrupulous land agents and a plague of grasshoppers. A static heroine, Jennifer does little more than whine between disasters, and her final thoughts of remaining on the prairie seem more the product of a broken will than of a change of heart. Although based on pioneer diaries, this slim volume misfires through its lack of authentic psychological drama.
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- PublisherM Evans & Co
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0871316943
- ISBN 13 9780871316943
- BindingHardcover
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