SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1922
THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE
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Actually is it an entire decadent creed, was published in 1904. This story in- Eagle's Heart" I chanced, one night My mind was busy with him when
charmingly written, outr , sophisti- volved Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado, to visit the largest gambling saloon in in going down the valley a week or
cated, brilliant, and abnormal. A great and was an attempt to define the ori- Cripple Creek, which was still in the two later, I had occasion to take soy
m-ity prominent artists are in the gin and character of a desperado. * * full glow of its "prosperity," and as I luncheon at a little hotel in a small
book, others are thinly disguised-and A mere story has never quite satis- stood watching the games in progress junction town on the plain. The ac-
I'ter, surely one of the oddest figures fled me. In writing my novels I have in the long hall, my attention was at- tual manager of this hotel was a
in >>oitern literature. But summaries always felt the need of an underlying tracted to the proprietor who was young girl not more than eighteen
are weak and inadequate. By all sociologic motive. Broadly speaking, serting at the moment as "look-out." years of age, and her beauty, her dig-
means read "Peter Whiffle." It is one my fiction has all along been based on Seated in a high chair, and idly toss- sity, and the calm self-reliance which
of the outstanding books of the year. the great westward movement of men ing a poker chip from hand to hand, enabled her to keep impudent admirers
"Kimoo," by John Paris, is sup- which followed upon the close of the he presented a striking picture. He at a distance filled me with wonder.
postid to have created some kind of a Civil War, and "Hesper," the story was a handsome Irishman of about Miners, cattlemen, drumimers, came
sensation in England. A pruned edi- which followed "The Captain of the forty years of age, and on his face and went with smiles and bold words
lion has recently been published in Grey Horse Troop" was founded on rested a curiously introspective and but she remained quietly mistress of
tle Initeit Stiles by Boni and Live- a study of "The Cripple Creek Miner's somber expression. He suggested a herself.
right. A cunventional plot serves to War," which took place on Bull Hill, dreaming leopard, and I began to won- "Suppose that big Cripple Creek
intruditiee asnd connect a long series of eleven thousand feet above the sea, der who he was and where he came gambler should chance to stop off here
lattcrtt side pictures of Japan, It is and nearly a mile above Colorado from. He did not appear to see what and become possessed of a passionate
not Isslilly written; neither is the dic- Springs. * * * was going on below, but I was assured; desire to take this girl away with
tissre. The characters of my next story are that he could be waked to action by him,-what would happen? Suppose
almost entirely Western. During my the slightest suspicious motion,Ite 1se should admire bimsors'ehoer-
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s v11) something like ninety-eigt 1i1
siollars, I felt enabled to make a mid-
usiier trip back to my old home isn
l osag, Iiwa, anil to my father's home
in Ordway,. D)iklota. This was an
ipiis'h-ts'rkissg s'xlierit'noie for me, for
ny thrce years it hiostn had given
use Iis'rsplertice in tie life of the.
tirairie fiiriser. I lierceived with new
visisis the lonsnitsss and drudgery of -
1the firisers' wles. All across North-
wcestern osiwa and up through Central E
[ alunta I Isriodedt darkly over the
prattleti presented and this bitter
isimosi w;,s seepned by the condition -
in ibids I found mss wother on a
tresess farm just above Ordway.
It seas in this mood of resentment
that I began to write (smmeitiay
after returning to Btoston) the stories E
whirlh later made up the first volume
of "Huali Traretlled Roads." My second
trits ts l 'ta in 1889 added to my
sasigi' resenlto'nt, for while on the
fusris, I sas my iher suffer a Mara-
ly tie stroke lwhich seenmed at the mo-
snit to ibe the s si i) her life. During
these ycrs 1887-8, 1 wrote nearly all
of lisa at sries in the two volumes of -
Main' aniteled Rlads." * * *
3eanwihile I hail li-ft Itoston and had
silishe say tlesary heasd-quarters
in Ihicags. Myi ldging was with a E
fatuity ithin a fess' doors of the Lake
Shurn Irive, ail from this study (and
sy West Sates home) I began to E
study the Rocky mouttains or
ralitEr I c'ntinued to study the
Itiic'ky inssssitsins, for I hil al-
r'saily nisisie (isi' tri to California,
ansI two t) ('sstisassdo. Each year I
siassue 1i tour of somse hart of the High
Csntiry, mid each autumn, laden with
n'rial liki a bee, I returned to my
stsuly and there wrought out my tales E
or cunposed my poems.
MIy second long story, "Rose of
lmsslher': Cooly," was wriilen partly E
ii West Salem and partly oi Elm
Street, It Wt6 published in 1895, at
the sante time that I was beginning -
to iNrite sturies of Colorado and New
Mexico. Two years of historical re -
search followed, for I 'as engaged to -
d a histoiry of Llysses Grant His
Ltife and Citaracter," afid then in the
slprinsg iif 18S18 just before the publi-
ration of this biography, I joined the -
russh to the Klondike. We followed
lhe T<elu'grsiph Trail which stretched
trot ihe Thompson River to the Third
Firk ol tli'e Stickeen. It was nearly-a
ilbsi soansl mili's long andi swe were-
eig11ty ilsiya its the awilderisess. Ositof
this rigorous experience came "The
lung Trail" and many poems written
on my saddle or in camp.
After five months in North West, and
while on my way homeward on the
Irain som'where in Montane. I bega
to write the first chaipter of a novel I
which I called "The liagle's Heart."
It is curious that I siosili have begun
this story ratler than "The Long
-_ Trail," but so it happene51. I finished
"The Eagle's Heart" in 1899, and it 1
dies for "Witches Gold" and "The slightest word of accusation. powered by his money and marry him,
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"One eare it heard,
The other out it went."
-CHAUCER.
That is the fate of most advertising. A deserved fate perhaps, but not
the one intended. May this fare better, as it deserves, for it has a message
that may profit you withal.
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you that we are closing out Spring Suits and Spring Wraps this week, without
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priced very reasonably.
That sale of Silk Dresses at $19.50 and $29.50 is most interesting. The
garments are all late models and the prices about two-thirds their value. So
naturally they will not abide with us for long.
Without attempting to unduly influence you we would suggest that this
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