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      O PIONEERS!

      By

      WILLA CATHER

      This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, 2017

      www.dreamscapeab.com * [email protected]

      1417 Timberwolf Drive, Holland, OH 43528

      877.983.7326

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

       Part 1 The Wild Land

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Part 2 Neighboring Fields

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Part 3 Winter Memories

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Part 4 The White Mulberry Tree

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Part 5 Alexandra

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

      Part 1

       The Wild Land

      Chapter 1

      One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray sky. The dwelling-houses were set about haphazard on the tough prairie sod; some of them looked as if they had been moved in overnight, and others as if they were straying off by themselves, headed straight for the open plain. None of them had any appearance of permanence, and the howling wind blew under them as well as over them. The main street was a deeply rutted road, now frozen hard, which ran from the squat red railway station and the grain "elevator" at the north end of the town to the lumber yard and the horse pond at the south end. On either side of this road straggled two uneven rows of wooden buildings; the general merchandise stores, the two banks, the drug store, the feed store, the saloon, the post-office. The board sidewalks

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