In this Book
- Stations West: A Novel
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
- Series: Yellow Shoe Fiction
Oklahoma is a forgotten territory of "Indians, outlaws, and immigrants" when its first Jewish settler, Boggy Haurowitz, arrives in 1859. Full of expectations, he finds the untamed region a formidable foe, its landscape rugged, its resources strained.
In Stations West, four generations of Haurowitzes, intertwined with a family of Swedish immigrants, struggle against the Territory's "insatiable appetite." The challenges of creating a home amid betrayals, nature's vagaries, and burgeoning statehood prove too great. Each generation in turn succumbs to the overwhelming lure of the transcontinental railroad, and each returns home to find the landscape of their youth, like themselves, changed beyond recognition, their family utterly transformed.
Dramatic and lyrical, Allison Amend's first novel, steeped in the history and lore of the Oklahoma Territory, tells an unforgettable multigenerational -- and very American -- story of Jewish pioneers, their adopted family, and the challenges they face. Amid the founding of the West, Stations West's generations struggle to forge and maintain their identities as Jews, as immigrants, and as Americans.
Table of Contents
- PART 1 Arrows to the Future, 1880–1893
- PART 2 The Tracks Single Out, 1893–1894
- PART 3 Driving the Ties Together, 1894–1895
- Chapter 10
- pp. 121-130
- PART 4 Fallen Trees Make a Dam, 1896–1902
- Chapter 11
- pp. 133-142
- Chapter 12
- pp. 143-154
- Chapter 13
- pp. 155-166
- PART 5 The Machine, Spectacular and Solid, 1903–1907
- Chapter 14
- pp. 169-177
- Chapter 15
- pp. 178-181
- Chapter 16
- pp. 182-188
- PART 6 A Track Upward to the Clouds, 1908–1930
- Chapter 17
- pp. 191-197
- Chapter 18
- pp. 198-203
- Chapter 19
- pp. 204-212
- PART 7 Staring into the Past, 1935–1937
- Chapter 20
- pp. 215-226
- Chapter 21
- pp. 227-235
- Chapter 22
- pp. 236-242
- Chapter 23
- pp. 243-246
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 249-250