Frontier's End: The Life and Literature of Harvey Fergusson (Modern German Culture and Literature) by Gish, Robert F - 1988

FRONTIER'S END: THE LIFE AND LITERATURE OF HARVEY FERGUSON

Gish, Robert F.

1988 University of Nebraska Press , Lincoln, Nebraska, U. S. A.

1st Edition.  Hardcover. Size : 9" tall. 363 pages.

Features *  Literary Biography. Black and White photographs. From the blurb: "Definitely a contribution to the field of western literary studies. . . . Gish's full-scale biography should help establish Fergusson as one of the top western writers-a rank he certainly deserves. " -William T. Pilkington, author of Harvey Fergusson. The western frontier was officially pronounced closed in 1890, the year Harvey Fergusson was born in Albuquerque. He spent his life reopening it in a series of novels stretching from the classic Wolf Song (1927) to the belatedly acclaimed Grant of Kingdom (1950) and The Conquest of Don Pedro (1954). In this first full biography and critical study, Robert F Gish sees Fergusson as a modern frontiersman in love with the outdoors, women, and writing. The scion of a New Mexico family prominent in business and politics, Fergusson moved restlessly from one new frontier to another, always seeking to recreate in his life and work the adventure and freedom enjoyed by his ancestors. After a strenuous open-air life by the Rio Grande he went east to raise a ruckus as a journalist and then to Hollywood as a screenwriter, all the while testing his sexual mettle. Finally free-lance writing was the only frontier available to one of his imaginative energy. Fergusson's early novel Wolf Song is still considered one of the best ever written about the mountain man. Gish shows the writer embracing the gloriously masculine and atavistic role of a "lone rider" even as he scorned "the worship of the primitive. " Fergusson struck up a friendship with H. L. Mencken and Theodore Dreiser (who influenced his literary style) and played a part in the development of Taos and Santa Fe as meccas for artists and writers.  B&W Illustrations.

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