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Few readers remember the pioneer farmers of fiction. For one novel of the calibre of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth or Hamlin Garland's Middle Border stories, a thousand others appear and are forgotten within the month they are published. A few, like Ruth Suckow's novels of Iowa farm life, are praised but little read.
A few others, like Rose Wilder Lane's Free Land, look solidly good to begin with, turn out to contain the sort of black specks that are sometimes found inside the best-appearing small potatoes. Well-written, soberly sentimental,...
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