Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THIS RECKLESS BREED OF MEN (361 pp.) -Robert Glass Cleland-Knopf...
...virgin streams. For most of them, the yearly rendezvous, a "combined festival and fair" in the wilderness, was their only contact with civilization. There they sold their furs, bought their supplies and spent their hard-earned profits in "roaring, riotous debauch, devoted in about equal measure to lethal whisky, reckless gambling . . .and an orgy of sexual abandon with the complacent Indian girls and squaws." The sun-blackened trappers modeled them selves after their No. 1 foe, the Indian...
...valuable baggage of anecdote, legend, old documents, and excerpts from fron tier diaries. A generous sprinkling of old prints and photographs helps to make This Reckless Breed of Men an impor tant discovery for any armchair explorer of western Americana...
...afterwards taught young Raymond Westerling in Istanbul's French Catholic St. Joseph school, recalled that he was "a mild, well-mannered, moon-faced little boy." Raymond's later development was not what Frére Adolphe might have expected: he became the notorious "Turk" Westerling, a reckless, ruthless professional soldier and a fanatical Moslem...
...town's businessmen found him good company and a good talker-even able to discuss the ups & downs of the St. Louis Cardinals. And he picked up poker fast. Says one card crony: "He's too reckless to be a good player. But he sure puts a lot of life in a game." He also kept his ties with Paris, went there almost every summer and brought back both new scores and new art. St. Louisans soon learned to take pride in his collection of contemporary art which includes, among other things, some two dozen Picassos...