Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like being a poet," sighed Adolf Dehn. "You don't make money at it." For 20 years his lithographs of round-bellied priests, frock-coated bankers, mountain landscapes and Midwestern barnyards had been finding their way into museums and the portfolios of connoisseurs. But stocky, Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn wanted a quicker and handsomer welcome from fortune than Ralph Blakelock got (see above...
...litho stone. Last week the 60 lithographs he had finished in his spare moments were on exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. A good many of them were in his old vein: New Yorkerish jibes at solemn nuns, nightclubbers & dilettantes. But most gallerygoers preferred his Minnesota farmyards and Colorado mountain landscapes. In them, Dehn proved once again that he knows how to give black the coolness and weight of real shadows, and how to make white blaze and sparkle the way light does...
Author Guthne's mountain men-buffalo hunters, trappers and guides-are seen, smelt and heard with a consistency and solidity of understanding that makes most other writing about them seem perfunctory or fake. All the romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness and courage-are combined with a realist's grasp of them as rough and wayward fugitives from society. The idiom of their thought and speech has never been so richly used in fiction...
Nature & Fate. In seven years Boone and Jim, roaming around the Rockies, become seasoned mountain men, almost indistinguishable from the Indians in their grease-and-bloodstained buckskins and their way of life. Then Boone and Jim say goodbye to Scout Summers and head north to find Teal Eye; Boone had always had a hankering to settle down with her as his squaw...
...narrative of the violent Kentuckian's search for his love has the poetic improbability of something that might actually have happened. He finds her and joins her tribe, the Piegans, in the mountain valley of the Teton River, "winding, busy but unhurried, with a mind and time to have a look at things as it went along." Living with the Indians suits Boone. "A man could sit and let time run on while he smoked or cut on a stick with nothing nagging him and the squaws going about their business and the young ones playing, making out that...