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...Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six guns. It is rarely convincing, but frequently amusing, and few readers will want to revoke the "poetic license" Author Fitzgerald claims in salting the tales of his kith and kin. Take his Uncle Will, for instance -that's his gamblin' and killin' uncle. In a 15-hour poker session Uncle Will won the Whitehorse Saloon and helped the former owner forget his troubles by plugging him with his pearl-handled revolver. The Whitehorse was the hottest honky-tonk in Silverlode. a raffish overnight boom town. Across the way lay Adenville...
...after her mother's death with her pretty teeth sharpened for revenge. She gets it by the rather oversimple expedient of making a public scandal of herself with a Texas gambler named Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper). But Clio's calculated bitchery proves too much for the simple gamblin' man who wanders in & out of her bedroom like a cow-country Casanova. He checks out for Saratoga, which seems to be full of millionaire suckers. Clio hastily settles her blackmail deal for a deflationary $10,000 and turns up at the United States Hotel with a phony title...
...Boys. Billy and Elizabeth Hull had five sons. First was Orestes, a smart boy who "made a doctor" and went to Louisiana where he died young "of a lock of the bowels." Second was Sanadius Selwin, who was a "Gamblin' Hull," wasted $30,000 of his pappy's money failing in business. Cordell was the third son by 7 months, and Cord became the favorite. Fourth was Wyoming Hull, who was known all his life as the "general"; sick as a. baby, he remained childish, wore Cord's old clothes, wandered about Carthage begging a quarter...