Photograph of the author by Emelie Danielson on back of dust jacket.
Book one of a projected narrative poem in a series.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1944.
Summary
This is the first part of an American epic left unfinished at Benet's untimely death, about the western migration of peoples and more specifically the pioneers, first as they came to America and then as they spread out through America towards the West.
Other formats
Also available online.
Online version: Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Western star. New York, Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart [1943]