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Author:

Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.

Title:

Cimarron / Edna Ferber ; foreword by Julie Gilbert.

Edition:

1st Vintage movie classics ed.

Publisher:

Vintage Books/Random House,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 316 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
Pioneers--Oklahoma--Fiction.
Journalists--Oklahoma--Fiction.
City and town life--Oklahoma--Fiction.
Women civic leaders--Oklahoma--Fiction.
Oklahoma--Fiction.
Political fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Western stories, American.

Other Authors:

Gilbert, Julie Goldsmith.

Notes:

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Double Day, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 1930"--T.p. verso.

Summary:

Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.

Series:

Vintage movie classics

ISBN:

0345805755 (pbk.)
9780345805751 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)823046029

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)