num_pages: 352
description: Zane Grey is one of America's most popular and enduring authors, the man behind the classic Western Riders of the Purple Sage . Desert of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War I. A passionate novel of patriotic and anti-union propaganda, it portrays the anxieties of the young country threatened by a foreign war after the closing of the frontier. Grey captures the heart of a nation at the brink of a century of change.
language: English
title: The Desert of Wheat: A Classic Portrait of America at the Time of World War I
titlecomplete: The Desert of Wheat: A Classic Portrait of America at the Time of World War I
genres: Fiction, Westerns, Classics, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 484
publisher: Forge Books