The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Stegner, Wallace Earle / Tk / Bramhall, Mark
Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty, drifting from town to town and from state to state, seeking their fortune or at least a living. It is the conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bos pursuit of the frontier myth and of the American dream that gives the book such resonance and power.