Once a WildernessNovel on transformation of Michigan from an agricultural to an industrial state. Wrote Margaret Wallace in Time, April 8, 1934: "[Pound] has painted in glowing yet truthful colors the way of life founded by those solid and industrious and straight-thinking farmers who settled and cleared the rich wilderness lands of the Middle West and who built for themselves and their children an enduring prosperity." |
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