Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 27 | Biographical Novel Written on Hill

Biographical Novel Written on Hill Ramsey Benson in Hill Count Country Stokes has tackled a difficult job and has done it well lt It Is a a. biographical biographical bio bio- graphical novel of Jim builder ot of the northwest but Hlll Hill appears only in the conversation of the books book's characters few of whomever whom whomever ever had seen him Bensons Benson's stOry is especially hap hap- py he is describing the earlY days daS ot of Minnesota's statehood when the Swedes came to menace what the immigrant Ohioans and andew New ew Englanders considered a racial superiority The author apparently has made madea a careful study of the politics of off the e period and n devotes what h spay be too much C of f dt the novel to that phase of Minnesota's development Farming and railroading are so much more the story ot of James J J. J Ifill that to one reader at least the chapters dealing with the legislature legisla- legisla ture at St St. Paul could have hae been shortened without marring the effect ef ef- of a novel wen well worth reading