. . . "The Awakening Land"@en . . . . "The Awakening Land trilogy by Conrad Richter is a series of three novels that explore the lives of a frontier family in the early 19th-century Ohio Valley. It includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950); the latter won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951.The Awakening Land trilogy was first published as a single hardcover volume by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1966. These works established Richter as a major novelist of historical fiction."@en . . .