["The Big Sky" is a] monument of a book! One of those monuments made out of rough boulders, native to the spot, rolled together to serve as a pedestal for a towering bronze figure of epic size. The first monument raised to the men who in the wild emptiness of those middle plains and beyond, in the mountains which are the spine of our country, preceded the home-making pioneer, a monument to the "mountain man."…

The book is exactly what it should be to chronicle and portray this figure of an American past who has never before been set in the center of our attention. Rough as an oak log with the bark on, and as stiff and strong-fibered and dense. The style is sober, simple American, natural and unselfconscious as the central figure of the book. The author looks at the reader out of clear, honest, truth-telling...