SOURCE: A review of Cimarron, in The Bookman, New York, Vol. LXXI, No. 4, July, 1930, p. 440.

In the following review, the critic favorably assesses the characters and themes of Cimarron.

In 1889 Sabra Cravat, dressed in gray cheviot braided with elaborate curlycues, wearing a bonnet with a bird on it, and high button boots, mounted the seat of a covered wagon and drove from the comparative civilization of Wichita, Kansas, to the red wastes of the newly opened Oklahoma. In the wagon ahead was her Peer Gynt of a husband, the picturesque, mysterious Yancey Cravat. She took with her her silver spoons and cake dish, monogrammed linen, her principles and her traditions. He took with him his printing press, the six shooters that were already notched, his hatred of settled, humdrum life.

It was freedom and newness that the man wanted; the woman wanted the old order replanted upon the...