Cedar
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|  Subject: 'The Wind,' by Dorothy Scarborough  Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:32 pm | |
| In spite of how a few folks around here feel about West Texas, the intense heat that we endure all across the land, and our someplace-lack-of-trees, may I recommend ~ The Wind, by Dorothy Scarborough? It really qualifies as the classic, gothic novel of Texas, I think  And, yes ... it is a trite bit scary .... especially if one comes to its pages with an aversion to the novel's very setting .... he he he. There is a somewhat frightening female character, as well, whom -- entering into the psyche of the protagonist -- one has no choice but to endure. Oh, and the poor cattle, with their parched throats  ... wailing and bellering for precious water ...
And, of course, there is the constant breeze ....
Want to learn why a mass of West-Texans turned out to make a burnt offering of a novel, back in the 1920s .... and why the place-name, Sweetwater, may be somewhat deceptive? Read The Wind.
I still haven't seen the movie which was produced for the silent screen, starring Lillian Gish. The book was really quite enough 
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/fsc1.html
Miss Scarborough's prose is lovely, by the way.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
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madelyn
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| | Subject: Re: 'The Wind,' by Dorothy Scarborough Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:29 pm | |
| | Uh..........no thanks. I'll still read Lily though. I don't have much time to read anymore. |
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