Word: buckaroos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money, and "good grub" at his boardinghouse. The reason for his reticence seems to be that when the poet's private emotions were most powerfully involved, convention made him rein in his rhetoric. The plain fact is that a great number of the letters written by the old buckaroo of the open road, the advocate of "the broad masculine manners of these States," were nothing more or less than love letters to young men. The caution he used in this clandestine correspondence seems to have carried over into his other letters...