Word: countryborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blake made the drive of which he writes while still a college student, but for all his youth and inexperience, he writes as though the West were continually coursing through his voins. His book is a peculiarly happy mixture of the simplicity, honesty and quiet humor indigenous to the countryborn, with a style so facile and fluent as to put the majority of his elders to shame. At times, his descriptions are startingly effective. The "trail drive" becomes an actual experience for the reader, and when the last page is regretfully turned, one's mind travels back o episodes which...
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