Westward Spreads the Fire was written as a sort of free-market answer to The Grapes of Wrath. It was about Judd Puckett, a young man who was forced to become the head of a family traveling the Oregon Trail after the death of his father. The subtext was about the dust bowl migrations, and how the migrant farmers should look to their past and rediscover the American spirit of rugged individualism etc etc...
Anyone else read this one?
also, Obscure Novels Thread
>>10016837
>published by Penguin
>obscure
>>10016837
did you make this up