Waters, Frank - Fred T. Marsh (review date 23 June 1935)
Fred T. Marsh (review date 23 June 1935)
SOURCE: "Colorado Boom Days," in The New York Times Book Review, June 23, 1935, pp. 6-7.
[In the review below, Marsh gives a mixed assessment of The Wild Earth's Nobility.]
Frank Waters has written one of those tales of the West which are competing with English, Scandinavian and other "sagas" for popularity with those who like long drawn out family histories. If it be true that every man's life has a novel in it, it is just as true that every family has the stuff out of which a saga (in the corrupted modern use of the word) may be fabricated. The American pioneer saga has its own virtues and its own defects. But all honest novels of pioneer families should be welcomed for theirs is the stuff out of which American society has been made.
Frank Waters's [The Wild Earth's Nobility] is a novel of the Colorado mining boom. It begins in the Seventies and runs through the early years of the...
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