In the mid-1800s, early settlers saw opportunities in moving west to the vast landscape. Willa Cather’s “O Pioneers!” and Bret Harte’s “Luck of Roaring Camp” share the theme of how the pioneers interacted with the land. The authors illustrate the struggling efforts of working together as a family, the challenges of nature’s wrath, and even allow an insight into death among the settlers. Family and friendship was an important part of both stories. In “O Pioneers!” John Bergson needed hid family Alexandra and her 2 brothers to take care of the land while john passed away. While in “Luck of Roaring Camp” Kentuck had been attached to luck as it says in this sentence, “It needed but a glance to show them Kentuck lying there, cruelly crushed and
