Cimarron — Edna Ferber

Yancey Cravat, a flamboyant, larger-than-life frontiersman, and his genteel Southern wife Sabra stake a claim in Oklahoma during the 1889 land rush — building a newspaper and a town from nothing as the frontier, and the Osage nation whose land it once was, are transformed forever.

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