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Below Grass Roots (Pike's Peak)
Frank Waters
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Description for Below Grass Roots (Pike's Peak)
Paperback. Series: Pike's Peak. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA; FT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
In Below Grass Roots, the second book in Frank Waters's Pikes Peak saga, turn-of-the-century Colorado Springs is prospering with the mining boom and a growing tourist industry. Patriarch Joseph Rogier becomes ever more obsessed with the treasures of the towering mountain and tries to enlist his son-in-law Jonathan Cable in his mining schemes. Cable instead leaves for Navajo country with his young son. Rogier, convinced that new wealth lies deep within the mountain, below grass roots, sinks his mines and what remains of his fortune ever deeper into the mountain's granite. As in the other two novels in this semiautobiographical ... Read more
In Below Grass Roots, the second book in Frank Waters's Pikes Peak saga, turn-of-the-century Colorado Springs is prospering with the mining boom and a growing tourist industry. Patriarch Joseph Rogier becomes ever more obsessed with the treasures of the towering mountain and tries to enlist his son-in-law Jonathan Cable in his mining schemes. Cable instead leaves for Navajo country with his young son. Rogier, convinced that new wealth lies deep within the mountain, below grass roots, sinks his mines and what remains of his fortune ever deeper into the mountain's granite. As in the other two novels in this semiautobiographical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ohio University Press Ohio
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Pike's Peak
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780804010481
SKU
V9780804010481
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About Frank Waters
Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.
Reviews for Below Grass Roots (Pike's Peak)
"The prose of Frank Waters seems almost as timeless as the Southwest of which he writes so elegantly and so eloquently." Colorado Libraries