East of EdenHarper & Brothers, 1925 - 299 pages |
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Page 72 - One of the senators who was bought and paid for by the Minneapolis gang that owned us, he stood up and said, 'Go home and slop your hogs!
Page 23 - It seemed impossible that the discontent which had started among a few Scandinavian farmers of North Dakota could have swept across their own state—their own county.