TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCarter,Margaret Hill
AU  - Marchand,J.N.
TI  - Winning the Wilderness
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2008-12-12; Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed
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N2  - "Winning the Wilderness" by Margaret Hill McCarter is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story explores the challenges and triumphs of frontier life, focusing on themes of perseverance, familial struggles, and the quest for personal autonomy in a burgeoning America. The narrative revolves around Asher Aydelot, a young man caught between his past life in Ohio and his aspirations for a future in the wild territories of the West.  At the start of the book, Asher Aydelot returns to his family home after serving in the Civil War and finds himself in conflict with his father's expectations for his future. His father, Francis, desires for Asher to take over the family farm and settle down in Cloverdale, but Asher's heart longs for the wide-open spaces of the West, where he envisions building a new life alongside his love, Virginia Thaine. As they navigate familial duties, ambitions, and their own desires, the couple faces the daunting realities of pioneering life, including isolation and the struggle against a fierce wilderness. The opening chapters depict their evolving relationship against a backdrop of historical events, setting the stage for a compelling journey of transformation and growth in a harsh yet beautiful landscape. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27505
ER  -