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Based on one of the most significant periods in Frank Waters's own
life, Pike's Peak is perhaps the most complete expression of all
the archetypal themes he explored in both fiction and nonfiction.
In The Dust within the Rock, the third book in the Pikes Peak saga,
an aging Joseph Rogier clings to his vision of finding gold in the
great mountain and his grandson Marsh comes of age in the Rogier
household. It is the early part of the twentieth century, in
Colorado Springs, and the schoolhouse, the newsstand, the railroad,
the mines--all become part of the younger man's emergence into
adulthood and self-discovery.
Waters's powerful and intuitive style transforms the tale into a
mythic journey, a search for meaning played out in the drama of
everyday living on the vast American frontier.
Pike's Peak (1971) is composed of three condensed novels: The Wild
Earth's Nobility, Below Grass Roots, and The Dust within the Rock.
Some years after its publication, an interviewer asked Frank Waters
whether it was autobiographical. Yes, he replied, and no.
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