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HTML:An orphaned young woman finds hardship and romance on the Kansas prairie in this "enjoyable" historical novel by the New York Times??bestselling author (Library Journal). It is 1924 and nineteen-year-old Hallie Meredith and her five-year-old brother Jackie must fend for themselves in America's struggling heartland. Forced to leave a housekeeping job when her married employer, wealthy landowner Quentin Raford, makes romantic overtures, Hallie becomes the cook for a threshing outfit.
As she and Jackie travel from farm to farm across western Kansas, they become valued members of Garth and Rory MacLeod's ragtag crew, which includes a Cherokee, a fugitive bootlegger, and a Mennonite who has been jailed for his stand against fighting. Hallie has finally found the home she desired, but her growing feelings for Garth threaten to set brother against brother at the worst possible moment??when the dangerous and powerful Quentin is ready to take vengeance for his wounded pride.
A moving story of integrity, courage, love, and adventure on the Great Plains, The Unplowed Sky captures the beauty and the resilience of the American spirit that prevails against those who would destroy it and confirms author Jeanne Williams's reputation as "a master novelist" (TheDenver Post… (más)
This was an interesting story of harvest season in the days of early harvesting machines. Starting in Kansas and traveling with their machines northward, zigzagging across the states, harvesting for hire. Descriptions of Kansas were perfectly rendered. Characterization, many based on real people, was nicely done. (Note to self – remember the cat under the beard.) Also portrayed well was the life of the traveling harvesters as lived on the road, quite different from the stories you read of migrant workers in current times. There was a bit of a love story involved; not really my cup of tea, and that part was kind of lame. But the historical aspects of the harvest season in the 1920’s were fascinating. ( )
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This story is dedicated with love and appreciation to Uncle Lou, who worked on a threshing crew and helped build roads and railroads in No-Man’s Land; to Aunt Dorothy, an indomitable spirit, who drove “Big Red” in the harvest fields; and to Alice Shook, my kissin’ cousin, who has shared with me such vivid memories of life on the land and when the threshers came.
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Hallie, stretched, opened her eyes, and smiled at the dawn.
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The outfit swung into Nebraska and headed west for the High Plains, where harvest began so much later than in the central part of Kansas that it was possible to thresh both regions and work south, then east again toward their starting point. …
They had journeyed three hundred miles, crossed all the rivers of west central Kansas, the Arkansas, the Smoky Hill, the Saline, and both branches of the Solomon. At twenty-six farms, over and over, stacks dwindled as bundles and grain spikes passed through the teeth of the separator to pour into wagons or build the straw stack.
Sometimes finishing a farm in one day or two, sometimes in five or six, sometimes running by moonlight when rain threatened, they threshed 70,000 bushels of wheat, 10,000 of oats, and a few thousand of barley. They were only one small part of the 100,000 workers who threshed a swath 200 miles wide and 1,000 long from Texas into Canada.
Hallie took satisfaction in feeding men who fed the nation …
“Pretend you’re a wild goose” had become Hallie’s watchword for the high, long view.
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Then she blew Garth a kiss over her shoulder and sounded the two long, one short that meant they were on the road.
Fiction.
Literature.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:An orphaned young woman finds hardship and romance on the Kansas prairie in this "enjoyable" historical novel by the New York Times??bestselling author (Library Journal). It is 1924 and nineteen-year-old Hallie Meredith and her five-year-old brother Jackie must fend for themselves in America's struggling heartland. Forced to leave a housekeeping job when her married employer, wealthy landowner Quentin Raford, makes romantic overtures, Hallie becomes the cook for a threshing outfit.
As she and Jackie travel from farm to farm across western Kansas, they become valued members of Garth and Rory MacLeod's ragtag crew, which includes a Cherokee, a fugitive bootlegger, and a Mennonite who has been jailed for his stand against fighting. Hallie has finally found the home she desired, but her growing feelings for Garth threaten to set brother against brother at the worst possible moment??when the dangerous and powerful Quentin is ready to take vengeance for his wounded pride.
A moving story of integrity, courage, love, and adventure on the Great Plains, The Unplowed Sky captures the beauty and the resilience of the American spirit that prevails against those who would destroy it and confirms author Jeanne Williams's reputation as "a master novelist" (TheDenver Post
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