An "I Remember" Story
" NEBRASKA Coast" has no plot: it is a straightforward "I remember" story of the American move west, 80 years ago. The hero is John Mec Dougall, farmer by calling, adventurer by genius, who tdok his wife and family from New York State to Nebraska, round about 1860 . . . They become the central figures in a sort of panorama of pioneer life and character. There are comic episodes, such as that of Professor Lewis and his great rain-making bombs; there are dark and terrible ones, such as that in which McDougall rescues a murderer from a lynching party. But it wouldn’t surprise me if you were to enjoy most of all the continuous background against which these episodes stand out-a background filled with minor but typical Nebraskans, whose speech, anecdotes, and reminiscences seem to bring an age to life. Mr, Davis says he has greatest reason to thank his father, whose talk ran wide over those times and his partners in them. Mr, Davis has known how to use his father’s memory: it almost might be his father’s eyes and voice.-(From a review of Clyde Davis’s " Nebraska Coast," by J. H. E. Schroder, 3Y A, August 5.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 5
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199An "I Remember" Story New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 5
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