Fair land, fair land

"A novel of the early-day West in the period between 1845 and 1870 in which Dick Summers, a conservationist, seeks retribution from his former countryman Boone Caudill and companionship with Teal Eye."@en
"A novel of the early-day West in the period between 1845 and 1870 in which Dick Summers, a conservationist, seeks retribution from his former countryman Boone Caudill and companionship with Teal Eye."
""'Fair Land, Fair Land' marks the sequel to A.B. Guthrie, Jr.'s two masterworks, 'The Big Sky' and 'The Way West'. Dick Summers, the frontiersman hero of 'The Way West', heads east from Oregon seeking renewed companionship with Teal Eye, the mother of his child, and retribution from his former compatriot Boon Caudill. Imbued with a rich sense of the impermanence of the idyllic plains, this captivating western epic offers a stirring commentary on a country's physical and spiritual erosion"--Page 4 of cover."@en