The Sea of Grass Author:Conrad Richter "The Seas of Grass" was first published in 1937, the author's first novel. This edition is a sixth printing of the May 1965 MMPB. The cover art depicts the three protagonists -- rancher, wife, and child -- in a field of tall grass. — This is the story of the fight [between the New Mexico grassland-owning rancher, the emigrant settle... more »rs who sought to homestead that land, and the United States Army of the West that sought to keep the peace], of the man who waged it and of the beautiful woman he brought to that lawless land. It is a uniquely powerful and novel novel of the early Southwest and the American past by one of our greatest novelists.« less