Century Town

Author: James A. Michener (USA)
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: In the tide of westward expansion, settlers announced their arrival by shooting at all birds and beasts, and crazily seized the vast and fertile land in the West. Secom, working frantically for a week, controlled an area of over five million acres; the foreman Jim, born from a cowboy background, worked eighteen to twenty hours a day and finally climbed to the position of manager, owning a large number of properties. Meanwhile, the "ice in his veins" Philip, upon hearing the news of war, wildly shouted, "We're getting rich, getting very rich!" He stayed up all night, hurriedly buying back the land he had just sold over the phone and acquiring all the arid land listed in the Hundred-Year Town real estate records, because war needed wheat. Even Charlotte, a British immigrant group, became a billionaire.