Stations west
Subtitle: a novel
By: Allison Amend
Series: Yellow shoe fiction; Yellow shoe fiction
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780807136171
Description: Follows four generations of Haurowitzes, from 1859 when the first Jewish settler, Boggy, arrives in Oklahoma's forgotten territory. Intertwined with a family of Swedish immigrants, they struggle against betrayals, nature, and burgeoning statehood, to find their families utterly transformed.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Arrows to the future, 1800-1893; title: The tracks single out, 1893-1894; title: Driving the ties together, 1894-1895; title: Fallen trees make a dam, 1896-1902; title: The machine, spectacular and solid, 1903-1907; title: A track upward to the clouds, 1908-1930; title: Staring into the past, 1935-1937; title: Epilogue.