The Earthbreakers (Annotated)

The Earthbreakers is Ernest Haycox's large-scale historical novel of migration, settlement, and moral endurance in the Pacific Northwest. Centered on pioneers who cross into Oregon and attempt to impose order upon forest, mud, hunger, and human uncertainty, the book treats the making of a community as both heroic labor and ethical trial. Its prose is lean, observant, and unsentimental, characteris...