Research Catalog

Title

The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer / Oscar Micheaux ; introduction by Professor Jayna J. Brown.

Author

Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951

Publication

New York : Washington Square Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

xxviii, 288 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"The Conquest, published in 1913, is the first of seven novels written by Oscar Micheaux, better known as a prolific pioneer African-American filmmaker. This novel, along with two that followed, The Forged Note in 1915 and The Homesteader in 1917, mirrors Micheaux's experience as a black pioneer of the American West. The son of former slaves, his family had settled in Kansas as a part of the Exoduster movement in the post-Reconstruction era." "Micheaux tells the story of a brave homesteader, Oscar Devereaux, whose dream is to tame 1,000 acres of land and establish himself as an example of success for his people; hence, The Conquest. He secures the land but is overwhelmed by his struggles with drought, loneliness, and a troubled marriage."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 > Fiction
• Western stories
• Autobiographical fiction
• Fiction
• African American pioneers > Fiction
• South Dakota > Fiction
• Frontier and pioneer life > South Dakota > Fiction
• African American pioneers > South Dakota > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Autobiographical fiction
• Western stories

Note

• Originally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page xxv).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Discontent--Spirit of the Pioneer -- Leaving Home--A Maiden -- Chicago, Chasing a Will-o-the-Wisp -- The P--n Company -- "Go West Young Man and Grow Up With the Country" -- "And Where Is Oristown?" The Town on the Missouri -- Oristown, the "Little Crow" Reservation -- Far Down the Pacific--The Proposal -- The Return--Ernest Nicholson -- The Oklahoma Grafter -- Dealin' in Mules -- The Homesteaders -- Imaginations Run Amuck -- The Surveyors -- "Which Town Will the R.R. Strike?" -- Megory's Day -- Ernest Nicholson's Return -- Comes Stanley, the Chief Engineer -- In the Valley of the Keya Paha -- The Outlaw's Last Stand -- The Boom -- The President's Proclamation -- Where the Negro Fails -- "And the Crowds Did Come" -- The Scotch Girl -- The Battle -- The Sacrifice--Race Loyalty -- The Breeds -- In the Valley of the Dog Ear -- Ernest Nicholson Takes a Hand -- The McCralines -- A Long Night -- The Survival of the Fittest -- East of State Street -- An Uncrowned King -- A Snake in the Grass -- The Progressives and the Reactionaries -- Sanctimonious Hypocrisy -- Beginning of the End -- The Mennonites -- The Drouth -- A Year of Coincidences -- "And Satan Came Also."

ISBN

0743460588

OCLC

• 52297377
• SCSB-10889486

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library