The Wild Earth's Nobility

<div> <p><i>The Wild Earth's Nobility</i> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Frank Waters (1902-1995) one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction. Of <i>Pike's Peak</i> (1971) the <i>Chicago Daily News</i> wrote It is a product of maturity written with a sustained strength and beauty of style rarely found in fiction today.</p> <p>Pike's Peak is composed of three condensed novels: <i>The Wild Earth's Nobility</i> <i>Below Grass Roots</i> and <i>The Dust within the Rock</i>.</p> </div>