Thanks for the conversion. It looks great on the Kindle.
I first read this book around 1966. At first I remembered reading it for fun, but back then I was in college and it must have been an assigned book. It was so good that I didn't consider the assigned read as 'work' even at the time. I shared it with other family members and they were equally thrilled with the work. It is that good.
The lasting memory is the sheer isolation of the early plains settlers. The huge vista, no trees for miles and miles. No neighbors for 40 miles or more. No communication--like being on another planet.
If one of the couple were to be injured they would lay there for a long time--possibly days--until the other arrived.
The bleakness and enforced solitude as well as the constant menace of untamed Indian tribes drove poor Beret slowly and inexorably mad.
Truly a classic. It is almost never mentioned in the pantheon of great books of past decades.
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