Project Gutenberg 2010-01-31 Public domain in the USA. 93 Gates, Eleanor 1875 1951 06034690 The Plow-Woman Produced by Stephen Hope, Barbara Kosker, Michael and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Plow-Woman" by Eleanor Gates is a novel written in the early 20th century. This work chronicles the experiences of Dallas Lancaster, a determined young woman adapting to life on the Dakota prairie in the face of challenges that come with homesteading, family struggles, and the complexities of community life during a time of expansion in the American West. The story examines themes of resilience, responsibility, and the clash between the encroaching railroad and the lives of settlers. At the start of the narrative, we meet Dallas, who is diligently plowing their new land with her mules, Ben and Betty, as winter approaches. The opening chapter introduces her family, including her father Evan, a crippled former railroad worker, and her delicate younger sister, Marylyn. The family's hopes hinge on their claim's potential value because of the imminent arrival of the railroad, which Dallas worries will disrupt their hard-earned life. As Dallas handles her plowing and interacts with her surroundings, the narrative builds a sense of both the arduous labor required for homesteading and the subtle shifts in their circumstances, foreshadowing conflict that may arise from their precarious position in the frontier. The arrival of outsiders, including a storekeeper named John Lounsbury, hints at evolving relationships and possible tensions in this tightly-knit community. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31139/31139-h/images/cover.jpg en Dakota Territory -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Travel & Geography Browsing: Fiction 608847 599540 2024-09-13T08:39:53.959955 2023-09-13T13:14:54.651837 text/html text/html 610984 2010-01-31T09:56:48 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 332310 2010-01-31T09:56:48 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 349257 2024-09-13T08:40:04.402908 application/epub+zip 357318 2024-09-13T08:39:55.672943 application/epub+zip 323260 2024-09-13T08:39:54.801955 application/epub+zip 568530 2024-09-13T08:40:10.943848 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 491385 2024-09-13T08:40:03.219929 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 456935 2022-09-14T10:26:00.136265 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 545989 545880 2024-09-13T08:39:51.682974 2023-09-13T13:14:52.663794 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 545849 2010-01-31T09:56:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 218476 2010-01-31T09:56:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 545840 2010-01-31T09:56:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 218438 2010-01-31T09:56:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20247 2024-09-13T08:40:11.106861 application/rdf+xml 17009 2024-09-13T08:39:54.915961 image/jpeg 2600 2024-09-13T08:39:54.859950 image/jpeg 332220 2024-09-13T08:39:54.016943 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia