. . "The Trees, the first novel of Conrad Richter's trilogy The Awakening Land, is set in the wilderness of central Ohio (c. 1795). The simple plot \u2014 composed of what are essentially episodes in the life of a pioneer family before the virgin hardwood forest was cut down \u2014 is told in a third-person narration rich with folklore and suggestive of early backwoods speech."@en . "The Trees"@en . . . . . .