The Obstinate Land

New York: Crowell, 1977. First edition (stated). Octavo in beige boards; DJ is white or ochre; 214 p.; 24 cm.Very good copy with clean pages; Small dent to DJ spine and1/8th inch closed tear to top front edge of DJ, else good (+) Fine copy in very good+ jacket with small dent to DJ spine and1/8th inch closed tear to top front edge of DJ, else good (+). Hardcover. ISBN: 0690013191

Review copy with paper review slip laid in. During a hard winter the father of a pioneering German family settling the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma freezes to death and his fourteen-year-old son must assume responsibility for the struggling family; German Americans -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma -- Fiction; Germans -- Oklahoma -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma -- Fiction; Oklahoma -- History -- Fiction.