The Sea of Grass (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Conrad Richter
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: 1885-1910
- Setting: The U.S. Southwest
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Cattle, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Abandoned children, Immigration or emigration, Adultery, Illegitimacy, Southwest, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Gossip, Outlaws, Frontier or pioneer life, Land settlement
- Locales: Southwest (U.S.)
Characters Discussed
Colonel Jim Brewton, a pioneer rancher. He stages a bitter but losing fight against the encroachment of homesteaders who come west to fence and farm the free range. A proud man, the colonel claims his range as his empire, and he has only contempt for the “nesters” who would destroy it with wheat crops. He marries a vivacious young woman from St. Louis who brightens his home and his life for a time. After bearing three children, one not his, she tires of her rough, monotonous existence on the ranch and deserts her husband for a period of fifteen years....
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