Below Grass Roots (Pike's Peak): A Novel (Book II of the Pikes Peak Trilogy) - Softcover

Waters, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080401048X ISBN 13: 9780804010481

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 saga, Waters's masterful narrative draws on his own keen perception of the human condition to bring us this compelling tale of struggle and hope in the American West. Pike's Peak is composed of three condensed novels: The Wild Earth's Nobility, Below Grass Roots, and The Dust within the Rock.

About this title

Review:

"The prose of Frank Waters seems almost as timeless as the Southwest of which he writes so elegantly and so eloquently." Colorado Libraries

About the Author:

Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 080401048X
• ISBN 13: 9780804010481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256