Based on one of the most significant periods in Frank Waterss own life, Pikes Peak is perhaps the most complete expression of all the archetypal themes he explored in both fiction and nonfiction. In The Dust within the Rock, the third book in the Pikes Peak saga, an aging Joseph Rogier clings to his vision of finding gold in the great mountain and his grandson Marsh comes of age in the Rogier household. It is the early part of the twentieth century, in Colorado Springs, and the schoolhouse, the newsstand, the railroad, the mines, all become part of the younger mans emergence into adulthood and selfdiscovery. Waterss powerful and intuitive style transforms the tale into a mythic journey, a search for meaning played out in the drama of everyday living on the vast American frontier. Pikes Peak (1971) is composed of three condensed novels The Wild Earths Nobility, Below Grass Roots, and The Dust within the Rock. Some years after its publication, an interviewer asked Frank Waters whether it was autobiographical. "Yes," he replied, "and no."

Binding: Paperback;274 pages; Publisher: Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 526.87 g; Dimensions: N/A

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