

Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier.
- | By (Author): Wallace Stegner
- | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Mar 30, 2006
- | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- | Number of Pages: 592 pages
- | Language: Not available
- | Binding: Paperback|Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0141188006
- | ISBN-13: 9780141188003
- By (Author):
- Wallace Stegner
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:
- Mar 30, 2006
- Series:
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages:
- 592 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback|Softback
- Language:
- Not available
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141188003