The Desert of Wheat: A Classic Portrait of America at the Time of World War I

Zane Grey is one of America's most popular and enduring authors, the man behind the classic Western Riders of the Purple Sage.

Desert of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War I. A passionate novel of patriotic and anti-union propaganda, it portrays the anxieties of the young country threatened by a foreign war after the closing of the frontier. Grey captures the heart of a nation at the brink of a century of change.