Fair Land, Fair Land

US-only first: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1982 — the census claim is correct, and no UK edition precedes it in the records consulted. Written in English, so no original-language precedence question arises. The census description holds: this is a late bridge volume of the Big Sky sequence, carrying Dick Summers forward from The Big Sky (1947) and The Way West (1949) in internal chronology although written and published more than three decades later.