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The Desert of Wheat
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Title: The Desert of Wheat
Author: Zane Grey
Release Date: November 21, 2003 [EBook #10201]
Language: English
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ZANE GREY
THE DESERT
of
WHEAT
CHAPTER I
Late in June the vast northwestern desert of wheat began to take on a tinge of gold, lending an austere beauty to that endless, rolling, smooth world of treeless hills, where miles of fallow ground and miles of waving grain sloped up to the far-separated homes of the heroic men who had conquered over sage and sand.
These simple homes of farmers seemed lost on an immensity of soft gray and golden billows of land, insignificant dots here and there on distant hills, so far apart that nature only seemed accountable for those broad squares of alternate gold and brown, extending on and on to the waving ho