| The Wild Earth's Nobility: A Novel Volume 1 Contributor(s): Waters, Frank (Author), Gordon, Joseph T. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0804010471 ISBN-13: 9780804010474 Publisher: Swallow Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002021756 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Wild Earth's Nobility is the first of Frank Waters's semiautobiographical novels in the Pikes Peak saga. Here, in a frontier town in the shadow of the commanding mountain, the Rogier family settles near an age-old route of migrating Native Americans. In an era of prospecting, silver strikes, and frenzied mining, Joseph Rogier becomes a successful building contractor, rears a large family, and is gradually overwhelmed by the power of the great peak. In Waters's visionary prose, the story becomes a mythic journey to reconcile instinct and reason, consciousness and intuition, and the powerful emotions of a family struggling with its own dreams and human limitations. Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction. Of Pike's Peak (1971), the Chicago Daily News wrote, "It is a product of maturity, written with a sustained strength and beauty of style rarely found in fiction today." Pike's Peak is composed of three condensed novels: The Wild Earth's Nobility, Below Grass Roots, and The Dust within the Rock. |