The Fields Author:Conrad Richter The Fields is the second novel in the saga of Sayward Luckett and the conquest of the first great American frontier. It tells the story of Sayward's marriage and the birth of her children, capturing her in the full glow of her womanhood. The time of the deep woods is passing. The game is leaving, the settlement she helped to found is growing up.... more » And Sayward moves, with simplicity and grandeur, toward new challenges.« less