Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels the trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and the town (1950) trace the transformation of ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime ...Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels the trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and the town (1950) trace the transformation of ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The Fields continues the saga of the luckett family that began in the trees.