Bankowski 1 David Bankowski Mrs. Downes Humanities 4A 7 January 2002 The Sea of Grass In this novel by Conrad Richter, the end of the New Mexico frontier as seen through the eyes of Hal, the nephew of one of the last great cattle ranchers.
As civilization encroaches even onto that remote region, Colonel Jim Brewton symbolizes the last struggle and eventual submission of the land to the inevitable development of the forces of society. Jim was lord of his cattle ranch in which he had loved so much. Lutie Cameron was the gentle, cultivated woman he brought to the brutal new territory to be his wife. She married him, brought a foreign prettiness to his ranch, and even gave him children of their own. But she hated the land he loved, and their conflict in which they brought their children into was both tragic and inevitable.
Conrad Richter made the setting of this book in New Mexico during the late nineteenth century.
Aqueduct City of Mexico
An unkown marine organisms over sea grass in tide ...
Mexico- Fed. Armored train (LOC)He did this because even though as a boy he was saturated with tales and the color of the Eastern pioneer days. In 1928 Conrad and his small family moved to New Mexico, where his heart and mind were soon captured by the Southwest.
Conrad Richter picked the title Sea of Grass for a few reasons. Out in New Bankowski 2 Mexico or just anywhere in the west really the grassland is just so incredibly large that it is just like looking out into a vast and endless sea of grass, that looks like it just goes on forever and ever. It was because of the beauty of this vast sea of grass that Colonel James Brewton fights so hard to save it form society coming out to settle the land, and build fences, and claim parts of it as there own, and not just leaving it in the rightful hands of nature.
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The Sea of Grass (film)
Diving into a sea of grass