Word: faro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down payment on 40,000 acres of Union Pacific land in Nebraska near the Platte River. A community there, he dreamed, would be his monument, and good farming families, lured from depression...
...town went on (it now bills itself as the alfalfa-growing center of the West), but John Cozad never was the same. He toyed furtively again with faro, failed as a resort owner in Atlantic City, N.J. When he died in New York in 1906, he had reached a century he did not understand. But he earned his monument. His younger son was Painter Robert Henri, a founder of New York's famed "Ashcan School'' of realists; in a Manhattan gallery hangs Henri's stunning portrait of Gambler ohn Cozad, dark eyes brooding on a private...