The Palouse Story a Novel Author:Ellis L. Boden The hub of the "big Wheat Country" is a place on the map called Wheatsville, Pitman County, Washington. Lashed to the Idaho border, this hub town is hooked net-like to a web of communities including its sister city--Halifax, the county seat. Emcompassing the entire area is an immense terrain of endless mammoth mounds called the "Palouse Country"... more », which comprises fields of solid color--green in the spring, gold in the summer, where the staff of life flourishes in splendorous brittle-headed form. Wheatsville is the largest city in Pitman County and the home of Palouse State College. On the west side of North Grand Street in Wheatsville lies Military Hill. Looming along the opposite side of the street is a desolate mountain covered with undergrowth. The place referred to as College Hill. The tragedy steemed from a series of occurrences involving three men-a controversial salesman-farmer, a radio shopkeeper, and a locally talked of cowboy -- all of whom indirectly became connected with one another. The cycle of events brought one of them overtly face to face with the police. This man was destroyed. Another man was subsequently forced into rehabilitaion by the law. The third man played it straight and came off a winner after turning aside a purportedly inescapable fate. This is the account of these men and of a region oand of a people--in their passions and adversities--bound to the land and to one another through devotion to kindred and through an overwhelming desire for life's fulfillment.« less