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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 to the belatedly acclaimed Grant of Kingdom and The Conquest of Don Pedro. 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 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 us a journalist and then to Hollywood as a screenwriter, all the while testing his sexual mettle. Finally freelance 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.
Based on extensive research, including Fergusson's diaries and correspondence, Frontier's End goes a long way toward reconciling the regional with the mainstream in American literature in the person of a serious novelist whose importance is finally being recognized.
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A writer who defied labels, Harvey Fergusson was more a mainstream novelist who wrote about the west than a writer of Westerns. He is one of the literary writers of Westerns who really knew the area they documented in fiction but who have not quite achieved immortality. This full, detailed, knowledgeable biography attempts to pull Fergusson to the academic stature of serious Western novelists like Walter van Tilburg Clark and Frank Waters. Certainly Fergusson's Rio Grande (1933) still lives, and Robert F. Gish's biography should convince most readers to read at least Wolf Song (1927), which is a minor classic. Academic readers will like the numerous details and the careful scholarship; the regionalist reader will enjoy the personal details, which may seem sentimental to the academic. Illustrations, extensive notes, and an appendix of critical views. For academic or regional libraries documenting the west and for public libraries. -Q. Grigg, Hamline University
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New Mexican novelist Fergusson (1890-1971) knew both those who first settled the region and those who transformed its pueblos into western towns. In his finest novels he chronicles this change with concern for all: the pioneer or mountain man and the lawyer or banker who replaced him. Unfortunately, Gish is more interested in the role of critic than of biographer. Portraying Fergusson as lonely and private, he condescends to both man and writer and fails to bring life to his subject; he has no success in tracing Fergusson's work in films or in drawing revelation from sources. No bibliography; index and illustrations not seen. For research collections only. Timothy L. Zindel, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.