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...West. From Texas to Idaho they left "nothin but bones layin white in the sun like an alkali flat . . . and the wagon wheels breakin em like sticks." Milton Lott. 35-year-old millwright who got a Houghton Mifflin fellowship for this first novel, was born and raised in the Snake River country, the scene of his story. He describes his hunters' comfortless lives with an intimacy of detail that makes fine reading even of such simple events as pitching camp or building a fire. Author Lott spares the reader nothing-every gush of blood from a stricken buffalo...
After they moved to Libertyville,* near Chicago, the Brandos had a horse, a cow, a great Dane, a goose, a pair of bantams, several rabbits and 28 cats. Bud was the only one who could milk the cow. To this menagerie he would occasionally add a wounded snake or broken bird he had found somewhere. Once, when Bud's favorite chicken died, Mrs. Brando buried it in the garden. Bud dug it up and brought it back into the house. Mrs. Brando buried the chicken again. Bud dug it up. This went on for some time...
Taking time out from his business with the Writers' International Congress, Author William (A Fable) Faulkner decided to sightsee among the well-known Brazilian tourist spots, ended up in the São Paulo snake farm with a full-grown snake coiled around his neck. Calm in the knowledge that, as he has written, "man and his folly . . . will prevail," the Mississippi philosopher declared: "I'm not afraid of snakes. Man is man's most dangerous enemy." Then back to its keeper he handed the snake, which-on close inspection-turned out to be a thoroughly harmless...
...hottest political fight is over the Hell's Canyon dam on the Pacific Northwest's Snake River, one of the last great undeveloped river valleys in the U.S. The fight started in 1948 when the Interior Department proposed a huge new dam. The Idaho Power Co. countered with an offer to build three smaller dams. They would cost only $133 million, compared to $383 million for the Government's one dam, yet furnish two-thirds as much power. The Interior Department opposed Idaho Power's application, argued that it would not fit in with overall plans...
Land & Water. The valley of the Snake has become one of Idaho's richest farm areas; along a 200-mile stretch of the river, business is brisk, and crops (beets, potatoes, alfalfa, produce) grow green. Water made the difference. Teddy Roosevelt's 1902 Reclamation Act brought the water; since then, the U.S. Reclamation Bureau has built a $25 million complex of dams and canals (repayable from water and power revenue) to irrigate a million acres. Another homesteading project developed when, in 1947, a well digger struck a great underground river...