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...same disaster, and garrulous Jack is killed by a bullet aimed at still another Cropleigh. Daughter Julia causes much of the trouble by giving birth to a baby whose father might be her brother Duncan, her lover Pete Legrand, or even possibly her husband Joe Cree...
...Velvet Horn, and it shows in the detailed research, the loving re-creation of events and places, the carefully archaic turn of phrase. Long after most readers have forgotten his flamboyant Cropleighs, they will remember such fine set pieces as the marriage of Julia and the wake of Joe Cree with its barbecue, and the excellent sketches of the mountain people, whose folk talk has the pith and point too often lacking in the rest of the novel...
Privation. In The Pas, Manitoba, Cree Indian Sam Umperville, 82, oldest resident on The Pas Reservation, looked about the room he was assigned to in St. Anthony's Hospital, then stalked unceremoniously out the front door, explaining testily, "There's no place to spit...
...plan has been adopted. Deep Southerners are sulkily marking time, waiting for the Supreme Court's next move, which will be a decree outlining federal procedures for enforcing desegregation. The court will hear arguments on this subject in mid-October, may take several months to write its de cree...
Throne Power as the Mountie hero of Pony Solider gets 75 cents a day for wages. Even though his job involves rescuing a blond girl prisoner, capturing a renegade white killer and pacifying thousands of ravaging Cree Indians--all singlehandedly, Power deserves little if any raise...