Books written by Conrad Richter

The Light in the Forest

Conrad Richter, Holt Rinehart & Winston, Henry Holt & Company, LLC. Acknowledgments For permission to reprint copyrighted material , grateful acknowledgment is made to the following source : Atlas of the North American Indian by Carl ...
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The Light in the Forest

A fifteen-year-old white boy raised by the Lenape Indians is returned to his people under the terms of a treaty.
THE TREES

Here is the true American epic. Here is the raw adventure, swift and cruel in its episodes; but here too is the poetry of loneliness. Here is a portrait of frontier life as it really must have seemed to the pioneers.
The Light in the Forest

An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.
The Fields

Of this second novel in Conrad Richter’s great trilogy, Louis Bromfield wrote: “The Fields continues the life of Sayward after her strange marriage to the ‘educated’ New Englander Portious, through the raising of their family of ...
The Awakening Land: I. The Trees; II. The Fields; III. The Town

As a small girl, Sayward Wheeler and her family walk from Pennsylvania to the wilderness of the Ohio valley where they suffer many hardships and witness the rapid development of...
RAWHIDE KNOT&OTH STORIES

Here is the physical and emotional landscape of that world, with its vast spaces, its elemental struggles, its quality both of legend and of history, brought to us with the power and breadth that have given Conrad Richter’s work its ...
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS

A "chronicle of a white girl captive of the Indians returned against her will to her white home .
The Trees

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.
The Free Man

In this novel, the author of The Trees has written of those early Americans who were among his own forebears—the sturdy, courageous, hard-working, liberty-loving Palatine Germans who with the Alsatians and Swiss came to farm in ...
The Sea of Grass

Published in 1936, this novel presents in epic scope the conflicts in the settling of the American Southwest. Set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, The Sea of...
The Waters of Kronos

From the time of its first publication in 1960, Conrad Richter's The Waters of Kronos sparked lively debate about the extent to which its story of a belated return to childhood scenes mirrored key events of Richter's own life.
The Town

The Town is part of the The Awakening Land trilogy, which traces the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character.
The Town

The Town is part of the The Awakening Land trilogy, which traces the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character.
The Light in the Forest

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The Light in the Forest: Illustrated by Warren Chappell

An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.
Light in the Forest

The classic novel by Conrad Richter.
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The Trees

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.