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The Conquest

by Oscar MICHEAUX (1884 - 1951)

Chicago, Chasing a Will-O-The-Wisp

"This is the true story of a negro who was discontented and the circumstances that were the outcome of that discontent." While considered a novel, this largely autobiographical story is based on the author's experience as an African-American pioneer in South Dakota. (Summary by MaryAnn)

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Listen next episodes of The Conquest:
A Long Night , A Snake in the Grass , A Year of Coincidences , An Uncrowned King , ''And Satan Came Also'' , And the Crowds Did Come--The Prairie Fire , ''And Where is Oristown?'' , Beginning of the End , Comes Stanley, the Chief Engineer , Dealin' in Mules , East of State Street , Ernest Nicholson Takes a Hand , Ernest Nicholson's Return , Far Down the Pacific--The Proposal , ''Go West Young Man'' , Imaginations Run Amuck , In the Valley of the Dog Ear , In the Valley of the Keya Paha , Megory's Day , Oristown, the ''Little Crow'' Reservation , Sanctimonious Hypocrisy , The Battle , The Boom , The Breeds , The Drouth , The Homesteaders , The McCralilnes , The Mennonites , The Oklahoma Grafter , The Outlaw's Last Stand , The P-----n Company , The President's Proclamation , The Progressives and the Reactionaries , The Return--Ernest Nicholson , The Sacrifice--Race Loyalty , The Scotch Girl , The Surveyors , The Survival of the Fittest , Where the Negro Fails , ''Which Town Will the R.R. Strike?''