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High Prairie Farm and a University Love Test
Selina DeJong builds a successful Illinois truck farm near Chicago and sends her son Dirk to Midwest University in 1909. He clashes with a classmate Mattie Schwengauer, a pragmatic Iowa-born woman, and confronts loyalty to family, ambition, and a future beyond the farm.
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Selina
High Prairie School
Chicago
Klass Pool
Roel
Klaas
Selna
Egeelp
Paarlenberg
Vervuas DeJong
Ling
Perong
DeJong
Chapthr VL
Dirk
Vermont
Steck
Maartje Pool
Paarlesberg
Roelf
France
August Hempel
Midwest University
South Waller Street Commission
Hasier
Julie
North Clark Street
High Prairie
Klaas Pool
Cornell
Harvard
Boston Tech
Tidwest University
Dirk DeJong
Wisconsin
Sabig
Sone
Schwengauer
Mattie Schwengauer
Iowa
Emma
Seling
Mattie
Illinois Prairie
Meena Bras
H—1
Felighs
Raother
Elfth Street