Giants in the Earth (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: O. E. Rolvaag
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Blizzards, Suffering, Nineteenth century, Guilt, Midwest, Despair, Immigration or emigration, Farms, farmers, or farming, Storms, Depression, mental, Scandinavia or Scandinavians, Frontier or pioneer life, Insects, Snow
- Locales: North Dakota, South Dakota
Places Discussed
*Great Plains. Also known as prairie land, the largely flat grassland region of central North America spanning the region between Oklahoma and central Canada that is used for extensive cattle ranching and grain crops. To Per Hansa—a former fisherman—the prairie appears a sea of grass. At sunset its glowing rim resembles the horizon of a vast ocean. His wagon leaves a track like the wake of a boat, closing in rather than widening out astern.
As the novel opens Per Hansa has temporarily lost his way. Calming his anxiety he dreams of opportunities the...
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