Word: bison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story.* A country carpenter?tall, inarticulate, muscled like a bison ?marries a horse-breeder's daughter and moves in from Huntington, L. I., to hammer up frame houses in Brooklyn, the lustily sprawling community of 1823. His wife, Louisa, bears nine children in quiet, capable fecundity, expressing through motherhood and housewifery certain deep stirrings that are incommunicable to her husband...
...animal kingdom. He studied zoology and the keeping of museums in Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds of the western plains. He got himself commissioned to collect for mounting the family group still to be seen in Washington. The vivid story of "Our Last Buffalo Hunt," and of many another hunt in the spacious Hornaday odyssey of which it was an early episode, was published...
...into the bright memories of a boyhood spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky, Alaska, France, Baffin Land, Norway, New Brunswick, the Adirondacks, the Rockies, the prairies. His literary activities have been incessant and of great variety. But among two score titles, the best are those on wild life...
...martyrs his great, razes his forests and does not talk Esperanto, and because all the while he knows better, therefore, fumes Prof. Richet, homo sapiens is homo stultus, most stupid of animals, God's idiot. Most of which is the ranting of a dyspeptic physiologist. Whole herds of bison, seals, penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment the author neglects to enlarge upon them specific attainments. He is a violent little Voltaire with faith in epithets and protoplasm, but not in philosophy. In 1913 he took...
...bull buffalo within, and zoomed off with more bombs. Critics admired the brushwork of Captain Lansing and Lieutenant Cousins, both well known in American-Parisian junior art circles. Captain James ("Red") Mustane's technique was declared so faulty as to have produced a sea lion instead of a bison...