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050 00 $aPS3525.I1875$bC66 2003
100 1 $aMicheaux, Oscar,$d1884-1951.
245 14 $aThe conquest :$bthe story of a Negro pioneer /$cOscar Micheaux ; introduction by Professor Jayna J. Brown.
260 $aNew York :$bWashington Square Press,$cc2003.
300 $axxviii, 288 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page xxv).
505 00 $tDiscontent--Spirit of the Pioneer --$tLeaving Home--A Maiden --$tChicago, Chasing a Will-o-the-Wisp --$tThe P--n Company --$t"Go West Young Man and Grow Up With the Country" --$t"And Where Is Oristown?" The Town on the Missouri --$tOristown, the "Little Crow" Reservation --$tFar Down the Pacific--The Proposal --$tThe Return--Ernest Nicholson --$tThe Oklahoma Grafter --$tDealin' in Mules --$tThe Homesteaders --$tImaginations Run Amuck --$tThe Surveyors --$t"Which Town Will the R.R. Strike?" --$tMegory's Day --$tErnest Nicholson's Return --$tComes Stanley, the Chief Engineer --$tIn the Valley of the Keya Paha --$tThe Outlaw's Last Stand --$tThe Boom --$tThe President's Proclamation --$tWhere the Negro Fails --$t"And the Crowds Did Come" --$tThe Scotch Girl --$tThe Battle --$tThe Sacrifice--Race Loyalty --$tThe Breeds --$tIn the Valley of the Dog Ear --$tErnest Nicholson Takes a Hand --$tThe McCralines --$tA Long Night --$tThe Survival of the Fittest --$tEast of State Street --$tAn Uncrowned King --$tA Snake in the Grass --$tThe Progressives and the Reactionaries --$tSanctimonious Hypocrisy --$tBeginning of the End --$tThe Mennonites --$tThe Drouth --$tA Year of Coincidences --$t"And Satan Came Also."
520 1 $a"The Conquest, published in 1913, is the first of seven novels written by Oscar Micheaux, better known as a prolific pioneer African-American filmmaker. This novel, along with two that followed, The Forged Note in 1915 and The Homesteader in 1917, mirrors Micheaux's experience as a black pioneer of the American West. The son of former slaves, his family had settled in Kansas as a part of the Exoduster movement in the post-Reconstruction era." "Micheaux tells the story of a brave homesteader, Oscar Devereaux, whose dream is to tame 1,000 acres of land and establish himself as an example of success for his people; hence, The Conquest. He secures the land but is overwhelmed by his struggles with drought, loneliness, and a troubled marriage."--Jacket.
650 0 $aAfrican American pioneers$zSouth Dakota$vFiction.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zSouth Dakota$vFiction.
651 0 $aSouth Dakota$vFiction.
650 0 $aAfrican American pioneers$vFiction.
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast
655 7 $aAutobiographical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aWestern stories.$2gsafd
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMicheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.$tConquest.$dNew York : Washington Square Press, ©2003$w(OCoLC)606977012
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