Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gros Ventre tribe (part of the Blackfoot nation) on Montana's Fort Belknap reservation. In 1963 the tribal court ordered Mrs. Colliflower to quit pasturing her cattle in someone else's field. Having apparently ignored the order, she was arrested by the reservation's Police Chief Joe Plumage and Officer Lyle Reddog, and haled before Indian Judge Cranston Hawley. She pleaded not guilty. But without ever giving her a trial, Judge Hawley offered her the choice of a $25 fine or five days in jail...
...Joe Buck is Texas-born and New Mexico-bred, strong in the trousers and weak in the head. At 27, he imagines himself a sort of composite TV cowboy and spends most of his time riding mattresses. Somehow he decides that riding conditions are better in the East: "The men there is just faggots mostly, so the women got to buy what they want." As the book begins, he is heading for Manhattan with mounting hopes...
...Joe's journey inspires a mixture of emotions. On the face of it, the book is a comedy of copulation. At another level, it is a study of human suffering and insufficiency. To Herlihy, most men are either wolves or sheep, and their emotional relations are a monstrous travesty of love. The wolves need love so fiercely that they murder rather than admit it; the sheep need love so pitifully that they would rather be devoured than ignored...
Adolescent Fantasy. Joe Buck is a sheep. Son and grandson of prostitutes, he loses his mother when he is seven and is fetched up by "Gramaw." At 17, he meets a girl named Chalkline Annie and makes the scene on a pile of old carpets in the storeroom of the neighborhood movie house. After that, "the persons, female and male alike, who were so eager to avail themselves of his splendid body never appeared to notice that it was inhabited by Joe Buck...
Neither does Joe. The poor scared creature lives a life of adolescent fantasy. "In his thoughts he went walking down Park Avenue. Rich ladies looking out their windows swooned to see a cowboy there. A butler tapped him on the shoulder, an elevator whirred him up to a penthouse, a golden door opened into a large apartment carpeted from wall to wall with soft brown fur. Madame was wearing scanties covered by a sheer black negligee. Quivering with desire, she threw herself onto the soft floor. He took her. The butler handed him a signed check on which the amount...