Centennial
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Centennial
| Author | James A. Michener |
|---|---|
| Published | 1974 |
| Pages | 934 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Michener’s century-spanning novel of one place in Colorado, from geology forward through trappers, the cattle drives, irrigation, the railroad and the sugar-beet economy. The unit of the story is the land and what successive arrivals try to make it do. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @moseskagan — named in the thread answering “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)”, April 2025. Full list: What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
Connections
- Frontier — the American West as a sequence of extractive economies rather than one myth.
- City Building — how a settlement accretes around water, rail and a crop.
- Historical Fiction — the genre the thread was asking about.
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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