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The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer, 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 personable, industrious, and frugal with a purpose. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. His object is not speculation for a 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 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.
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Fiction, African American pioneers, South Dakota, Literary, Fiction - General, Literature: Classics, Historical - General, Fiction / General, Autobiographical fiction, South dakota, fiction, Fiction, general, Indians of north america, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Frontier and pioneer lifePeople
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Verso of t.p.: First edition, May 1, 1913.
Photographic frontispiece and photographic plates facing p. 56, 112, 128, 132, 140, 144, 160, 176, 192, 208, 224, 240, 256, 288 and 304.
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