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BROOKLINE: 3 inches of hardpacked powder over 8 inches base. 28 above, clear, Tow running...
CRAWFORD NOTCH: 10 inches windswept powder, Skiing good...
...Powder River is fine folklore material but Struthers Burt skims only the surface...
...Powder River is the fourth volume in a projected 24-volume series, edited by Constance Lindsay Skinner, called Rivers of America. Thus far the Kennebec, the Upper Mississippi, the Suwannee have been covered. One of the most promising publisher's projects of the decade. Rivers of America is conceived as "a literary and not an historical series." Unfortunately it is distinguished neither as literature nor as history. The worst features of regional writing-shallow local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers...
...very names of American rivers make poetry, from the Pee Dee to the Little Muddy, from the Penobscot to the Salt. But in Powder River, as in the previous volumes of the series, poetry is lacking. The rivers of America were never so dry as they seem in these books...