"A great romantic novel, written with striking brilliancy and power, in
which one sees emerge a new country and a new people.... Throughout the
story one has the sense of great spaces; of the soil dominating
everything, even the human drama that takes place upon it; renewing
itself while the generations come and pass away."--_McClure's Magazine._
"The book is big in its conception and strikes many great live topics of
the day--the feminist movement and the back-to-the-soil doctrines being
two of the most conspicuous. There is a spirit of the open spaces about
this story--a bigness that suggests that Miss Cather has taken more than
her title from Whitman's hymn to progress, 'Pioneers, O
Pioneers.'"--_San Francisco Chronicle._