The Wild Earth's Nobility : A Novel
The Wild Earth's Nobility : A Novel
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Author(s): Waters, Frank
ISBN No.: 9780804010474
Pages: 256
Year: 200207
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 27.53
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

"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."".



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