SOURCE: "Miss Ferber's Vivid Tale of Oklahoma's Salting," in The New York Times Book Review, March 23, 1930, p. 4.

In the following favorable review of Cimarron, the critic explores the character of Yancy Cravat and applauds the portrayal of pioneer life in the Oklahoma territory.

The exuberance and gusto, the robust romanticism of Miss Ferber's Cimarron are so compelling that they almost insensitize the reader against its artistic deficiencies. For this is a tale in the same vein as Miss Ferber's Showboat, frankly glamourous, headlong in its story-telling fervor. She has filled in with the boldest of strokes a canvas even more colorful, more animated, than her picture of troupers' life in the old days on the Mississippi. The scene of Cimarron is Oklahoma, and the story is traced against one of the most spectacular backgrounds in American life. The opening up of that great territory, its overnight settlement in...