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Desert of wheat

Famed Western writer Zane Grey veers from his typical narrative trajectory and treads into topical waters in The Desert of Wheat. Honorable wheat farmer Kurt Dorn is torn over whether he should join in the fight against Germany or remain in the U.S. to protect his family and crops. Will home or the battlefield hold sway? Read The Desert of Wheat to find out.

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  • "Famed Western writer Zane Grey veers from his typical narrative trajectory and treads into topical waters in The Desert of Wheat. Honorable wheat farmer Kurt Dorn is torn over whether he should join in the fight against Germany or remain in the U.S. to protect his family and crops. Will home or the battlefield hold sway? Read The Desert of Wheat to find out."@en
  • "Famed Western writer Zane Grey veers from his typical narrative trajectory and treads into topical waters in The Desert of Wheat. Honorable wheat farmer Kurt Dorn is torn over whether he should join in the fight against Germany or remain in the U.S. to protect his family and crops. Will home or the battlefield hold sway? Read The Desert of Wheat to find out."
  • "In the midst of World War I, Kurt Dorn cannot agree with his German-born father that America is making a mistake by siding with Great Britain. Meanwhile area farmers come into conflict with the IWW, which doesn't want the area's wheat to go to support the troops."
  • "In the midst of World War I, Kurt Dorn cannot agree with his German-born father that America is making a mistake by siding with Great Britain. Meanwhile area farmers come into conflict with the IWW, which doesn't want the area's wheat to go to support the troops."@en
  • "This is a tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War I. It portrays the anxieties of the young country threatened by a foreign war after the closing of the frontier."
  • "In the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War I, as the country is threatened by a foreign war and lifted up by patriotic propaganda, Kurt Dorn struggles to keep a band of outlaws from destroying his wheat harvest."@en
  • "The story of one man's fight to purge himself of a hated secret, and his war against the I.W.W.'s who ruin his harvest. An ""anti-Bolshevist"" tale."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "The 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."
  • "Wheat field of Washington state, rise of the Vigilantes, France and the sordidness of war."@en
  • "Set in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War I, this 1919 novel is a snapshot of America on the brink of change. Kurt Dorn is a young farmer of German ancestry who must choose between fighting against his ancestral homeland or staying in America to protect his farm and the woman he loves."@en
  • "Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872⁰́₃October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealised the American frontier. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The son of a German Farmer in Washington state during WWI, decides to join the Army to fight the Germans and "kill" the German part of his heritage. Along the way, he falls in love with the daughter of a rich farmer, and then has to protect her and himself from a worldwide labor organisation that is wreaking havoc all over the country to cause problems with the war effort."@en
  • "Young farmer Kurt Dorn is torn between going to France to fight the Germans or staying in America to be with the woman he loves and protect his wheat crop against saboteurs who question his loyalties."@en

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