O BEULAH LAND

by Mary Lee Settle ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 7, 1956

The first volume in a prospective tetralogy, this spans a pre-revolutionary period of twenty years (1755-1775), deals primarily with the movement west from Virginia to the Ohio Valley country as the land was taken from the Indians, and invests its slow saga of a new world to be claimed- at a price- with a rawboned and often poetic vigor. The lives of several characters intermittently sustain the chronicle; Hannah, cradled in the London streets, and deported to America along with the shifty Squire Raglan; Jarvey, a Quaker printer; Jonathan, who joins the Army for a vote and a bounty claim and who eventually moves westward with his gently reared wife, Sally. But primarily this is Hannah's story, as she lashes her way through the wilderness alone, is salvaged by Jeremiah whose wife she becomes and whose children she bears- ultimately to die scalped by the Indians along with him... A saga, with perhaps more a literary than a popular character, in which many will find distinction.

Pub Date: Sept. 7, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION