Oscar Micheaux
The Conquest
Enthralling Real-Life Saga of a Black Pioneer (Western Classics)
e-artnow, 2021
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EAN: 4064066499044
Table of Contents
Chapter I. Discontent—Spirit of the Pioneer
Chapter II. Leaving Home—A Maiden
Chapter III. Chicago, Chasing a Will-O-The-Wisp
Chapter V. "Go West Young Man and Grow Up with the Country"
Chapter VI. "And Where is Oristown?" The Town on the Missouri
Chapter VII. Oristown, the "Little Crow" Reservation
Chapter VIII. Far Down the Pacific—The Proposal
Chapter IX. The Return—Ernest Nicholson
Chapter X. The Oklahoma Grafter
Chapter XIII. Imaginations Run Amuck
Chapter XV. "Which Town will the R.R. Strike?"
Chapter XVII. Ernest Nicholson's Return—The Building West of Town—"What's It All About"
Chapter XVIII. Comes Stanley, the Chief Engineer
Chapter XIX. In the Valley of the Keya Paha. The Rivals. The Vigilants
Chapter XX. The Outlaw's Last Stand
Chapter XXII. The President's Proclamation
Chapter XXIII. Where the Negro Fails
Chapter XXIV. "And the Crowds Did Come." The Prairie Fire
Chapter XXVII. The Sacrifice—Race Loyalty
Chapter XXIX. In the Valley of the Dog Ear
Chapter XXX. Ernest Nicholson Takes a Hand
Chapter XXXIII. The Survival of the Fittest
Chapter XXXIV. East of State Street
Chapter XXXV. An Uncrowned King
Chapter XXXVI. A Snake in the Grass
Chapter XXXVII. The Progressives and the Reactionaries
Chapter XXXVIII. Sanctimonious Hypocrisy
Chapter XXXIX. Beginning of the End
Chapter XLII. A Year of Coincidences
Chapter XLIII. "And Satan Came Also."
CHAPTER I
DISCONTENT—SPIRIT OF THE PIONEER
Good gracious, has it been that long? It does not seem possible; but it was this very day nine years ago when a fellow handed me this little what-would-you-call-it, Ingalls called it "Opportunity." I've a notion to burn it, but I won't—not this time, instead, I'll put it down here and you may call it what you like
Master of human destinies am I.
Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities and fields I walk. I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel, and mart, and palace—soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate.
If sleeping, wake—if