The Wild Earths Nobility is the first of Frank Waterss 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 ageold 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 Waterss 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 (19021995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twentyeight works of fiction and nonfiction. Of Pikes 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." Pikes Peak is composed of three condensed novels The Wild Earths Nobility, Below Grass Roots, and The Dust within the Rock.

Binding: Paperback;250 pages; Publisher: Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 460.65 g; Dimensions: N/A

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