Fields of Gold Beneath Prairie Skies

Download or read book Fields of Gold Beneath Prairie Skies written by Suzanne de Montigny and published by BWL Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French-Canadian soldier, Napoleon, proposes to Lea during WWI, promising golden fields of wheat as far as the eye can see. After the armistice, he sends money for her passage, and she journeys far from her family and the conveniences of a modern country to join him on a homestead in Saskatchewan. There, she works hard to build their dream of a prospering farm, clearing fields alongside her husband through several pregnancies and even after suffering a terrible loss. When the stock market crashes in ’29, the prairies are stricken by a long and abysmal drought. Thrown into poverty, she struggles to survive in a world where work is scarce, death is abundant, and hope dwindles. Will she and her family survive the Great Depression?