**The basis for the Academy Award-winning major motion picture starring
Best Actor nominee Richard Dix and Best Actress nominee Irene Dunne.
**
This vivid and sweeping tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush, from Pulitzer
Prize winner Edna Ferber, traces the stunning challenges of settling an
untamed frontier. Staking claim to their new home in Osage, Yancey
Cravat, a spellbinding criminal lawyer, and his wife, well-bred Sabra,
work against seemingly overwhelming odds to create a prosperous life for
themselves. And as they establish themselves in this lawless land, Sabra
displays a brilliant business sense and makes a success of their local
newspaper, the Oklahoma Wigwam, all amidst border and land disputes,
outlaws, and the discovery of oil.
Originally published in 1929, and twice made into a motion picture,
Cimarron brings history alive, capturing the settling of the American
West in vivid detail.
With a new foreword by Julie Gilbert.
Vintage Movie Classics spotlights classic films that have stood the
test of time, now rediscovered through the publication of the novels on
which they were based.