Word: pard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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NEVADA-Zane Grey-Harpers ($2.00). Jim Lacy, wild hombre alias "Nevada," chased wild horses through an earlier volume, Forlorn River, sacrificed love and happiness for his "pard," and disappeared. The present story follows him to the wicked mining town where he had made his name notorious for gambling and drinking. To the surprise of gamblers and dancing girls, Jim now avoided trouble and laughed off insults. He did not explain that Hettie Ide, spirited California beauty, had since come into his life...
Kiss Myrtle for me, will you, pard...
Against gunpowder, what chance has the poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...