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Show HOYT WES WESTERN STORY I OO BOOK DEALS WITH ACTUAL EXPERIENCES EX-PERIENCES OF WRITER IN BUCKSKIN MOUNTAINS. RE- ' CEIVES FAVORABLE NOTICE. We are in receipt of a letter from T. C. Hoyt of Snowflake, Arizona, .who it will be remembered was a resident of Kanab from his boyhood to manhood, well known in Cedar City and southern Utah. Mr. Hoyt says that ho has just completed writing a book of fiction entitled "Rimrock", and as soon as the4 book leaves the printers hand, which will be very soon now, It will be placed on sale at all book stores in the United States. In commenting on the book tho wi'iter takes occasion to refer to somo of the incidents that came under his personal observation whilo he traveled travel-ed and worked on and In tho Buckskin Buck-skin mountains, as follows: "Tho story covers exactly the same territory as Zano Gray's "Heritago of tho Desert", namely, from the country south of Leo's Ferry, Ariz., to JUilford, Utah. The plot Is mainly main-ly fictional but is transplanted in part from a case that camo under my notice in Wyoming somo years ago-while ago-while investigating Innd fraud cases. Tho incidents are largely actual experiences of my own and those of my cowboy associates on and in tho vicinity of Buckskin Mountain but some of them are changed sufficiently sufficient-ly to fit them into the main narrative1 narra-tive1 or' to sustain the central plot, for instance tho stampede related in ono of tho chapters actually occurred occurr-ed at tho exact place stated in tho story but not with tke serious consequences conse-quences which the story depicts. Some of my Kano County friends will likely find somo of tho characters sufficiently homelike. to invite somo speculation. The love story is purely pure-ly fanciful. The geography is as real as tho complex nature of tho plot and my ability at description makes possible. "To a good many of its readers the motive or object of the book will bo apparent, namely,' to outline something some-thing of the Mormon philosophy in a fictional sotting with the deliberate deliber-ate purpose of introducing it to a class of people not reached by our moro conventional methods of proselyting. pro-selyting. The publishers call it uniquo religious philosophy" and that's what it is to most people but very matter-of-fact to us, but set in a way I sincerely hope will not prove tedious." rsr |