Advocates and Adversaries: The Early Life and Times of Robert R. Rose by Robert R. Rose (1977)

Advocates and Adversaries: The Early Life and Times of Robert R. Rose

(Number 75 in The Lakeside Classics series)

It was midafternoon of a gray day in early Spring (1914) almost 35 years ago. For hours I had been staring out of the Pullman car window of a Union Pacific train moving rapidly westward. I had once heard the expression "the land that God forgot." This seemed to me to be that land. No other words could describe it. Since early morning, but for two or three widely separated little towns, I had seen nothing but wilderness. ...