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...clear of involvement in Indo-China; for photography, Los Angeles Times Staff Photographer John L. Gaunt Jr., for a picture titled "Tragedy in the Surf." Pulitzer awards in other fields: fiction, William Faulkner's A Fable; drama, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; history, Paul Horgan's Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History; biography, New York Times Washington Correspondent William S. White's The Taft Story; poetry, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; music, Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Blceker Street...
...REASON WHY, by Cecil Woodham-Smith, told superbly the story of the charge of the Light Brigade and the incompetent, blundering commanders who consigned the unit to needless destruction. GREAT RIVER, by Paul Horgan, showed what can happen when a fine novelist with a sense of history tackles a congenial subject, in this case the story of the Rio Grande country from prehistoric time...
...Author Horgan begins in the dim past before recorded history, with a graceful account of primitive Indian existence. He believes that "they solved with restraint and beauty the problem of modest physical union with their mighty surroundings." At this distance in time he sees them as living "like figures in a dream, waiting to be awakened...
...rapacity of the Spanish governors. For 200 years the Spanish slaughtered and the Indians massacred, but by 1700 the Pueblo Indians were finished as warriors. The Rio Grande enjoyed few stretches of real peace. What with the Indians, the U.S.-Mexican war and the raids of Pancho Villa, Horgan's pages are seldom free from violence...
Great River could easily have drowned in a torrent of blood, but Horgan's interest in the people and the land is always deeper than any temptation to deal with adventure. There are excellent descriptions of Comanche Indian life, of the cowboy, of frontier towns. But the real triumph of Horgan's book is his own intense love for the Rio Grande country, which he has woven into his fine prose...