Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Winslow Homer and George Bellows. A small Kansas college, a young woman who will not be told what to study, and a professor who came out of the sunflower country and means to keep it. McCarter taught school in Kansas and then wrote the state into fiction — drought, sunflowers, mortgages and the colleges that were being built on the prairie while the sod was still fresh. The West here is not cowboys; it is people arguing about a library. Fifty-eight plates of painting, among them Winslow Homer and Robert Henri, gather the wheat harvest, the white mare and the still life of a prairie table, the plain domestic world McCarter's Kansans are building.