Giants in the Wilderness

Fraser, Genevieve (aka Genevieve Cora Fraser, American playwright, writer/researcher/college staff, 1945-____), “Giants in the Wilderness,”

a 60-minute drama in English, set on a bluff overlooking Pike’s Peak, Colorado, U.S.A., October, 1896,

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© 1998 by Genevieve Fraser;

• in Genevieve Fraser’s Giants in the Wilderness (Hubbardston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: The Author, 1998);

• script/rights available from Genevieve Cora Fraser, 7 Natty Brook Road, Hubbardston, Massachusetts 01452, U. S. A., telephone (home) 978-928-5453, (work) 978-632-6600, extension 260, e-mail gcfraser@peoplepc.com.

• Cited by Genevieve Cora Fraser via ftp, February 28, 1998; Fraser says says,

Dramatis Personae

Sargent (m), __, environmentalist, Forest Commissioner; Muir (m), __, environmentalist; Gifford Pinchot (m), twenty years their junior, environmentalist, Forest Commissioner.

Synopsis

“Sargent and Muir enter a bluff area overlooking Pike’s Peak. They have escaped the raving escapades of one of the pack horses. Sargent is badly shaken by the ordeal and gradually begins to draw parallels between the antics of the old nag and what he anticipates Congress will subject him to once the Forest Commission Report is made public by President Cleveland. Enter Gifford Pinchot, twenty years their junior, who feels exhilarated by the journey’s challenges as well as the political fight ahead. Sargent and Pinchot begin to lock horns about the report, and Muir acts as a spiritual and philosophical buffer, providing insight into the sacredness of the wilderness at stake.”

Charles Sprague Sargent (David Henshaw)

Film director, Professor Tony Cerubini and John Muir (Alan Womer)

Comment

• Reveals the difficulty of protecting the American wilderness, a constant American dilemma.

• Page mounted February 28, 1998, updated June 12, 1998, November 8, 9, 1998, July 22, 2000, November 25, 2008, by the site Webmaster.

Themes

Cleveland (Stephen Grover Cleveland, United States Democratic politician; mayor of Buffalo [1882-1883]; governor of New York [1883-1885]; 22nd and 24th president of United States [1885-1889, 1893-1897]; Democratic presidential candidate [1888], 1837-1908 ), Congress, environment, philosophy, Pike’s Peak, politics, sacredness, wilderness.