Light from Arcturus, originally published in 1935, is introduced to a new generation of readers by Mary Swander, author of Driving the Body Back and Heaven and Earth House. Recent Bison Book reprints of Winter Wheat, Fireweed, and The Curlew's Cry have renewed interest in the novels of Mildred Walker. Condition: Like New Excellent Price: US 8.00 Buy It Now Add to cart Best Offer: Make offer Add to Watchlist Fast and reliable. Readers of the early prairie novels of Willa Cather will recognize Julia Hauser. Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker, Trade Paperback Be the first to write a review. The milestones in Julia's progress are trips to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 and to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and in 1933. Grounded in memorable events, this novel illustrates the significance of the period's great world's fairs to the early settlers. Light from Arcturus shows how Julia stepped beyond sacrifice and duty, impressed herself on a larger scene, fed her spirit, and grew in dignity. Ellen's roots were deep in the Montana wheat country where she was raised. 20, 1943 This has so much to recommend it that it may seem pettifogging to limit enthusiasm by acknowledging that it is unduly slow-paced, almost to the degree of laboring the point. Winter Wheat is the story of Ellen Webb, a young woman living on a dry-land wheat farm in Montana in the early 1940s. But what could she do? She was married to a dull small-town merchant and soon confined by children. WINTER WHEAT by Mildred Walker RELEASE DATE: Jan. 'The four walls of her parlor bound her world too securely,' writes Mildred Walker. Stuck in the middle of Nebraska in the late nineteenth century, Julia Hauser felt restless.