Books with author Margaret Hill 1860-1938 McCarter

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Margaret Hill McCarter's tale of frontier life in Kansas offers great insight into the typical scenes and sights of the American Old West, told by an author who lived at the time - this edition includes the four, original illustrations. The Price of the Prairie's fast-paced narrative depicts cowboys, Native Americans and the natural landscape of Kansas. On the rural frontier for decades in the 19th century, this book efforts to capture the heritage and culture of the Kansas of the era. We also hear a good story about ordinary people in a dangerous, difficult yet pioneering and exciting time. Bounding and ambitious, The Price of the Prairie is as much a story of the land of Kansas as it is a tale of personal growth and struggles. We hear how the plains are settled, how the bison roam the country, and how settlers establish farms and effort to tame the vast lands. At the opening of the story, the narrator - an old man recalling his younger years - pointedly muse that 'there are no idle days in Kansas'. The author was a young woman and teacher who lived at the peak of the Old West culture. Margaret McCarter replicates the slang and idiomatic expressions of the era, imbuing the people settling in the midwest of the era with authenticity. The social life of the Kansas plains is cherished by the locals, and Marjie - an attractive young girl who embodies the spirit and heart of the time - has no shortage of admirers. We receive a frank portrait of life in the rural areas of the time. While there is a measure of nostalgia in the text (by its publication in 1910 the culture described was generally of the past) the hardships of the era are not hidden from the reader. Day after day was filled with hard work, leisure time was limited, and a break in the schedule was as much from acute danger - hostile Native Americans or bad weather - as it was anything happier. McCarter's personal experience with Kansas life - she was a school principal in Topeka in the 1880s - shines in this book. Respected and lauded in her era for her teaching and literary efforts, this book is a good example of an accurate, spirited and frank Western historical novel.

WINNING THE WILDERNESS By MARGARET HILL McCARTER Author of "The Price of the Prairie," "A Wall of Men," "The Peace of the Solomon Valley," "A Master's Degree," etc. Chicago A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1914 FOREWORD A reach of level prairie bounded only by the edge of the world--misty ravelings of heliotrope and amber, covered only by the arch of heaven--blue, beautiful and pitiless in its far fathomless spaces. To the southwest a triple fold of deeper purple on the horizon line--mere hint of commanding headlands thitherward. Across the face of the prairie streams wandering through shallow clefts, aimlessly, somewhere toward the southeast; their course secured by gentle swells breaking into sheer low bluffs on the side next to the water, or by groups of cottonwood trees and wild plum bushes along their right of way. And farther off the brown indefinite shadowings of half-tamed sand dunes. Aside from these things, a featureless landscape--just grassy ground down here and blue cloud-splashed sky up there. The last Indian trail had disappeared. The hoofprints of cavalry horses had faded away. The price had been paid for the prairie--the costly measure of death and daring. But the prairie itself, in its loneliness and loveliness, was still unsubdued. Through the fury of the winter's blizzard, the glory of the springtime, the brown wastes of burning midsummer, the long autumn, with its soft sweet air, its opal skies, and the land a dream of splendor which the far mirage reflects and the wide horizon frames in a curtain of exquisite amethyst--through none of these was the prairie subdued. Only to the coming of that king whose scepter is the hoe, did soul of the soil awake to life and promise. To him the wilderness gave up everything except its beauty and the sweep of the freedom-breathing winds that still inspire it.

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