Word: cameron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sight for aye!" screamed crusty Sir James Cameron to his son, whom the old laird suspected (unjustly) of poisoning his cousin. So young Andrew Cameron packed his cowhide trunk and packed himself off to the U.S. "The twain of us," he said, with "rueful humor," to the Spanish girl he married in Santa Fe, "[are] cut off from our pasts for aye, and we maunna greet about it, but gae staunchly forward into the future taegether...
...their "Gaelic and Spanish . . . capacity for swift, passionate love" came the daughter whom they christened Santa Fe. Sante Fe Cameron is the slice of pineapple in this fruity, old-fashioned cocktail mixed by Anya Seton (daughter of Wild-Life Popularizer Ernest Thompson Seton), whose last novel, Dragonwyck, was one of 1944's bestsellers...
When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...
...action is fast. The script is virtually actor-proof: all the characters are kept so busy ducking bullets, knives and pottery that they rarely get a chance to deliver a line, let alone muff one. But beauteous Yvonne de Carlo has competent support from strong-armed Rod Cameron and from a taciturn Indian who says "Ho" instead...
...Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh!" -the war cry of the clan Cameron...