"A Nebraska classic."—Saul Bellow

"That Wright Morris in his photographs seems to produce an indecent invasion of the privacy of his text is a tribute to his accurate and selective descriptive powers."—New York Times

"A pathbreaking and still unique example of the integration of photographs and narrative text."—Alan Trachtenberg

"An extremely able photographer and a first-rate writer."—San Francisco Chronicle

"A fine piece of Americana."—Library Journal

"A superb and . . . revolutionary wedding of prose and pictures, a kind of new art form." —Omaha World-Herald