The way west

A hundred-odd men, women, and children gathered at the rendezvous a few miles outside of Independence. They were solid, established folk, most of them, and they were leaving behind prosperous farms and businesses because they shared a dream about the rich lands in the West, where a man, his wife, and their young ones might make a better life and a new world more desirable than any Americans before them had ever known.

First sentence: THE DAY dawned clear, but it had rained the night before, the sudden squally rain of middle March.

Year

1949

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell

Editions

1

ISBN

9780553139037

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