Tells the story of the McClung family leaving Oklahoma to homestead in New Mexico, raising beans and children and living through poverty, family troubles, and rewarding experiences

In time of harvest

Literature & Fiction

Sinclair, John L.

Genre Fiction

Swallow Press/Ohio University Press

In Time of Harvest

Swallow Pr

Written in prose as rich and earthy as the land and people it portrays, this classic novel of the Southwest is about a family of homesteaders raising beans and themselves in southern New Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s.

In Time of Harvest (Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series)

G.K.Hall & Co.

In Time of Harvest (A Zia Book)

Univ of New Mexico Pr

New Mexico, the shining land

University of New Mexico Press

Brought up in England and Scotland as a reluctant aristocrat, John L. Sinclair (1902-1993) spent sixty years in New Mexico as a cowboy, museum curator, and writer. Sinclair got off a train in Clovis in 1923, saw saddle ponies and cowboys at the station, and knew that New Mexico was the place for him. He spent the rest of the 1920s cowboying around Roswell and in the Capitan Mountains, moving to Santa Fe in the 1930s after he sold his first article to New Mexico Magazine. For ten dollars a month he rented a house on Canyon Road, where he hobnobbed with artists and writers. After a stint as superintendent of the Coronado State Monument near Albuquerque, he and his wife spent the rest of their days nearby in a stone cabin with a view of the mountains. 
 This memoir, written when the author was ninety, captures his lonely childhood and his delight in the open spaces and society of New Mexico with dazzling clarity. Although Sinclair enjoyed living like a hermit, he was a sociable person who loved to tell tales. His story is a great literary legacy. Anyone with a yen for the West in the good old days will relish it.

A Cowboy Writer in New Mexico: The Memoirs of John L. Sinclair

United States

Home on the Range: The Memoirs of a Western Writer

Clear Light Publishing

Tells the story of Tod McClung and his family, a family of homesteaders raising beans and themselves in the southern New Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s, who arrived from Oklahoma with a team of mules in 1919, having travelled 'seven hundred miles to reach one square mile ...we can call our own'.

Clear Light Pub

Written in prose as rich and earthy as the land and people it portrays, this classic novel of the Southwest is about a family of homesteaders raising beans and themselves in southern New Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s.

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