When I first read this series about ten years ago, I couldn't stop thinking about it for days, weeks even. This is the first of a really wonderful trilogy about a family that settles in Ohio as the frontier changes from thick forest (The Trees), to farms (The Fields), to small rural communities (...
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. As was well known at the time, Richter had spent several years in the ...
It was his first stint with the army and his only one with Colonel Bouquet. Afterwards he was to serve under Generals Sullivan, Broadhead and Wayne, but Bouquet was the one he claimed he’d go through hell for the willingest. The Colonel was the peacefullest man, Del used to say, but mad as a wolv...