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Perhaps the most interesting case study is that of Mormon culture, an area of small population, but one which has producer an amazing number of good writers. Ezra Pound, Vardis Fisher, Maureen Whipple. Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto (the last two having both attended Harvard, a long, long, ways in all respects from Mormon Country). Like the South, Mormon Country has a very colorful history, established mode of life, and a much more definite set of values than even the South. Also like the South, and Ireland, and Russia, this has been a region in direct conflict with a larger culture...
...land reflects a peculiarly American genius, one that lies deep in the traditional pioneering instincts of the nation. No other country has come close to the U.S. in creating the mechanized giants of road building. "Road building," said one contractor, "is really the American art." Said the late Bernard DeVoto: "A highway is a true index of our culture. The machinery that builds it embodies developments in technology, invention, industrial progress, education, finance and so many other things that our whole cultural heritage has gone into producing...
...reprinted in Cardinal paper-back edition. His objectivity is also shown in what is probably his most famous work--Children of God: An American Epic, a novel of almost a thousand pages which won the 1939 Harper's prize. Several years before the publication of Children of God, Bernard DeVoto had called the story of the Mormon migration the great American novel that will never be written. In his review of Fisher's novel, he acknowledged that the job had been successfully completed...
BOSTON, Feb. 13-Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) said tonight he and Sen. Morse (D-Ore) plan to sponsor legislation which would give the name of the late author Bernard DeVoto '18 to Clearwater National Forest, Idaho...
...DeVoto won a Pulitzer Prize for a biography of Lewis and Clark, the remains of whose Westward Trail can be seen today in the Clearwater Forest. Neuberger said DeVoto had been a "dedicated and courageous conservationist...