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  • Surveying the fields
  • Early sowings: St. John de Crevecour's "History of Andrew, the Hebridean,"
  • Patrice Lacombe's La Terre Paternelle, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the bush
  • Laws of nature: Frank Norris's The octopus, Albert Laberge's La scouine and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the marsh
  • New world demeters: Willa Cather's O pioneers!, Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Martha Ostenso's Wild geese
  • Rich harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury, the meanest man in Spring County
  • Claude-Henri Grignon's Un Homme et son peche, and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the earth
  • Fields of crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of wrath, Felix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maitre-draveur, and Robert Stead's Grain
  • The cycle of seasons: Louis Bromfield's The farm, Ringuet's Trente arpents and Grace Campbell's The higher hill.