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The third book in Conrad Richter's American classic trilogy about settlement in Southeastern Ohio he named "The Town". It is the longest of the three books and takes our heroine Sayward into old age and onto death. In this book her children grow to adulthood and she loses them one by one, some to death and some follow their own path. Her husband dies in this novel. She struggles with aging. All this takes place against the backdrop of the mid 1800s on Ohio's frontier. This series is extremely enjoyable and a must read for anyone who is interested in the settlement of the midwestern United States. Although fiction it describes life in that era. In this novel the canal is dug and used and the first railroad engine arrives. Sayward hides blacks in her basement for the underground rail road as her son is editor owner of a newspaper calling for peace in the beginning days of the civil war. She grieves for the trees in the first novel that she moved into the midst to as a child and fought all her life to conquer. She never gives up searching for the small sister she lost when captured by Indians and she finally finds her in this third book. Please click on the book title and author's name above to follow the links to more information. And enjoy the video that follows. It is about the village at The Ohio History Center in columbus which would bring the reader into the world the way it was as Sayward passed away.
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