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Original Title:	The Trees
ISBN:	0821409786 (ISBN13: 9780821409787)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Awakening Land #1
Setting:	United States of America

The Trees (The Awakening Land #1) Paperback | Pages: 167 pages

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Title	:	The Trees (The Awakening Land #1)
Author	:	Conrad Richter
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 167 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1991 by Ohio University Press (first published 1940)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Classics

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The Trees is a moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight. Here, in the first novel of Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy, the Lucketts, a wild, woods-faring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation. This novel gives an excellent feel for America's lost woods culture, which was created when most of the eastern midwest was a vast hardwood forest---virtually a jungle. The Trees conveys settler life, including conflicts with Native Americans, illness, hunting, family dynamics, and marriage.

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I read The Trees (The Fields & The Town) after I watched and loved The Awakening Land mini-series on television in 1978 with Elizabeth Montgomery playing the brave and often desperate protagonist, Sayward Luckett. I loved the series so much I've re-read all three books multiple times over the years, purchased and shared them with friends, and made them almost required reading for my family (who loved them too). Richter wrote The Trees in dialect which might be a barrier to some, but if the

Wow! Gritty and real. Dialect to cadence, so precise to the period. Not an ounce of revisionist eyes or characterizations. Pioneers in America as experienced in the early days of the nation. Nothing is a given or any sure outcome for these people. Nothing.Classic.

Another review suggests this is "Little House on the Prairie" as retold by Cormac McCarthy. That's pretty apt! I was mesmerized by this story of the earliest settlers to central Ohio's primeval forest, the Northwest Territories, around 1800. The 'woodsy' family, hunters, head into the deep forest when they see their game deserting Pennsylvania. The image of an ocean-sized swarm of squirrels running - not swinging - westward through the forest was apocalyptic. The forest is so dense that they

I read this award winning work of fiction, on pioneering the Ohio river region, a number of years ago.I remember both the writing and story telling as excellent. A cautionary note this book is highly anachronistic, as in it felt like it was written in 1900 about events 100 years earlier than that. Actually it was written in 1950. 3.0 to 4.5 stars depending on ones preference for older books about even older topics.

When a man gets it into his head to move west, there's not much a body can do to stop him. Even if it means dragging the whole, dirt-poor family from Pennsylvania to Ohio through woods so deep one can't see the sky till the trees release their cargo come winter. Such a place belongs to the wild creatures who roam, not families with young 'uns. But from now on his dank, black, mossy world will be called home, and it doesn't do any one a lick of good to look behind.The story begins abruptly and

Conrad Richters The Trees is the first of a series of three novels called The Awakening Land. The third novel, The Town, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Based on the quality I perceived in The Trees, I intend to read the entire series.One reason I liked this novel so much is that Richters characters are so rich and diverse. This is especially true of the Luckett family members, the storys central characters. Worth Luckett is ill-suited for settlement life. He is a woodsy, an expert in

3.9 stars. Didnt quite get 4 stars, but I really liked the ending - it gave meaning to everything that happened before it. Its true what they say, Richter makes you feel as though he was there at the turn of the 18th century.