The Townsman Author:Pearl S. Buck writing as John Sedges Jonathan Goodlife came to frontier Kansas when it was a raw, new land of restless people, a stopping point for those who were pursuing the American dream ever westward. But Jonathan dreamed a different dream. To him the raw frontier was more than a place to rest before pushing on. For him it was a challenge and an opportunity. — And so he stayed,... more » even when his family moved on -- stayed to build a town, to teach, to love one woman, to marry another, to rear his children, to help build out of the primitive frontier the land America has become.« less