Word: bison
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...Bison-like animal with horns like a rhinoceros...
...around rapacious industrial tycoons, it is a portrait of an artist as a young man. Frank Clair is born in the grimy English city of Leeds (Scottish-English Author Caldwell was born in Manchester); when he is still a boy, his parents bring him to the U.S. city of Bison (Author Caldwell's parents brought her to Buffalo, in whose outskirts she still lives...
...Bison's beastliness proves too much for hypersensitive little Frank. At 21 he no longer walks in the forest, where the baton of the "invisible choirmaster" conducts music that used to make Frank's heart soar "on wings of agonized joy." When the spring earth becomes "an orb of gold afloat in rainbows," Frank just counts the orbs of gold that he has in the bank. He turns literary prostitute, and starts writing "poisoned pap" that sells well. He even, like Author Caldwell, writes a novel ("with Sex aplenty") about "international bankers" who "cunningly and sedulously plotted wars...
...plate. Then He taps your shoulder. 'Son,' He says, 'you take it from here'-and drops you flat on your puss." When the lowly Philadelphia Phillies fired him three years ago, the greying boy wonder shuffled off to Buffalo to manage the minor-league Bison team...
Ancient Americans. Probably the greenest diggers' pasture at present is the Western Hemisphere. During the last Ice Age, some 15,000 years ago, the now arid U.S. southwest was a well-watered temperate paradise swarming with bison, camels, mammoths, horses, giant ground-sloths. Clad in skins and armed with puny, flint-pointed darts, Ancient Man scurried about this dangerous, Pleistocene...