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From review - "This is a classic work of Texas fiction that is memorable for the storm of controversy it caused when it was published anonymously in 1925. Set in the 1880s, it tells the story of a fragile 18-year-old girl from Virginia, suddenly orphaned and left penniless, who goes to live with her cousin, a rancher somewhere west of Sweetwater, in West Texas."
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- PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0292790139
- ISBN 13 9780292790131
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages337
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The wind
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University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
(1979)
ISBN 10: 0292790139
ISBN 13: 9780292790131
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. xvii, 337 pages ; 21 cm. ; pictorial wraps. Browning from pulp paper inserts on interior of front wrap. The Wind stirred up a fury among Texas readers when it was first published in 1925. This is the story of Letty, a delicate girl who is forced to move from lush Virginia to desolate West Texas. The numbing blizzards, the howling sand storms, and the loneliness of the prairie all combine to undo her nerves. But it is the wind itself, a demon personified, that eventually drives her over the brink of madness. While the West Texas Chamber of Commerce rose up in anger over this slander of their state, Dorothy Scarborough's depiction of the cattle country around Sweetwater during the drought of the late 1880s is essentially accurate. Her blend of realistic description, authentic folklore, and a tragic heroine, bound together by a supernatural theme, is unique in Southwestern literature. As a story by and about a woman, The Wind is a rarity in the early chronicles of the cattle industry. It is also one of the first novels to deal realistically with the more negative aspects of the West. Seller Inventory # 002208
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