CALL OF THE ROCKIES
Neuberger, Richard L.
Call of the Rockies AMERICAS NEW FRONTIER, by Morris E. Garnsey. Alfred A. Knopf. 314 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Richard L Neuberger THE ROCKIES have been one great American region you could learn...
...Garnsey has had the privilege of exploring an uncharted plateau...
...Reviewed by Richard L Neuberger THE ROCKIES have been one great American region you could learn everything about except what makes the Rockies tick...
...It is unfortunate that he has relied so extensively, however, on quotes from other people without distilling the essence from these quotes or fitting them into his own readable language...
...44, who teaches at the University of Colorado, has filled this breach with One of the important books of the year...
...This is a lazy man's way to.write a book...
...But books about Rocky Mountain taxes, freight rates, and standards of living have been something else again...
...The Mountain West has lagged behind the South and the Pacific Coast in emergence from colonial status...
...Many regional books plow furrowed ground...
...His book about the Rockies should stand for many years as an economic text for the nation's least-known region...
...Garnsey is not a lazy man, as attested by the vast amount of original research which he has brought to bear on the problems of a region with vast resources, immense area, and yet only a few inhabitants...
...Pages 80, 81, and 82, for example, are lifted wholly (with credit, of course) from a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs...
...Anyone who would fully understand the westward movement in America, and what has happened to it, should read America's New Frontier...
...Professor Morris E. Garnsey...
...Books are legion about Rocky Mountain goats, train robbers, prospectors, and cowpunchers...
Vol. 14 • August 1950 • No. 8
