SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1922 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE 7 f 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- ItE11NIS('ENCES Stu (Continued from Page 1) 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