The backbreaking labor of German-Russian immigrants in the sugarbeet fields of Colorado is described with acute perception in Hope Sykes's Second Hoeing. First published in 1935, the novel was greeted in all quarters as an impressive and authoritative evocation of these recent immigrants and their struggle to realize the promise of their chosen country. "We are soon held by the vividness of the picture she draws and in a little while we find ourselves caring really intensely what becomes of them all."-Saturday Review of Literature "Second Hoeing takes on the stature of a powerful proletarian...