Waters, Frank - Joseph Henry Jackson (review date 21 January 1940)
Joseph Henry Jackson (review date 21 January 1940)
SOURCE: "Post Boom Days in Colorado," in New York Herald Tribune Books, January 21, 1940, p. 4.
[In the following review of The Dust within the Rock, Jackson commends the vitality of Waters's writing while lamenting its weak characterization and symbolism.]
In 1935, Mr. Waters began the full-packed trilogy, of which this volume is the concluding part, with The Wild Earth's Nobility, a novel of boom days in Colorado covering the period from 1870 to the 1990s. It was the story of Joseph Rogier, who made his fortune at carpentering and contracting and finally fell victim to the gold fever, losing all he had. Two years later Mr. Waters carried on the story with Below Grass Roots, in which old Rogier desperately continued his search for gold in the granite of Pike's Peak. Center of interest in this second part was Rogier's son-in-law, Cable, whose Indian blood taught him...
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