Title The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer / by Oscar Micheaux ; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Learthen Dorsey

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages) : illustrations Summary The novel portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen children, Devereaux leaves home to work in the Chicago stockyards and finally graduates to the job of porter in a Pullman railway car. He is persoable, industrious, and frugal with a purpose. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. His object is not speculation for quick profit but the cultivation of property he can call his own. He plows and sows and sweats, and by the age of twenty-five has reaped an estate worth $20,000. Success is sweet, self-respect is sweeter. But if the calamities he is exposed to as a homesteader are severe, so are those brought on by marriage to the passive daughter of a dominating preacher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi) Notes Originally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913 English Print version record Subject Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 -- Fiction SUBJECT Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 fast Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota -- Fiction African American pioneers -- South Dakota -- Fiction FICTION -- Westerns. African American pioneers Frontier and pioneer life English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. SUBJECT South Dakota -- Fiction Subject South Dakota Genre/Form novels. Autobiographical fiction Fiction Novels Pastoral fiction Western fiction Pastoral fiction. Western stories. Autobiographical fiction. Pastoral fiction. Western fiction. Novels. Fiction. Romans pastoraux. Romans. Form Electronic book LC no. 94006243 ISBN 0585266352 9780585266350

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