Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mailman, red-headed "Happy" Chandler earned his way at University of Kentucky Law School by leading a jazz band, playing the piano. He coached the Centre College football teams of 1922-27, got himself elected to the State Senate in 1929. There he cultivated Ruby Laffoon, with whom he rode into Frankfort two years later as second-in-command...
With Faris, Carl Raswan rode over the billowing dunes of the Nufud, whose red sands, "saturated with sunshine," looked as if they had been covered with crimson silk. They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all. Carl Raswan studied desert customs, developed an affection for the noble, helpless, panicky, good-natured camel, learned to eat locust, which he liked roasted but not boiled...
Carl Raswan rode on to other parts of Arabia, was captured by raiding enemies of Amir Fuaz and rescued by Amir himself, went on a great falcon hunt with the prince. Two years later he saw Tuema again, learned that Faris' brief marriage had ended happily by the standards of Bedouin romance, since Tuema had borne...
...Honey in the Horn sometimes reads less like a novel than like a travel book. A six-fingered Indian boy, also one of Uncle Preston's wards, befriended Clay, hid with him. Then Clay fell in love with Luce, tall, fair-skinned daughter of a wandering horse-trader, rode away with the horse-trader's outfit...
...coast to trek inland again. Wade Shiveley bobbed up in the wagon train. Clay killed another boy while trying to kill Wade, then accused Wade of the killing. Almost exposed, he assisted at Wade's lynching. Luce had a miscarriage. Leaving her with her horse-trading father. Clay rode on alone. He saw a countryside that had been opened to settlers dry up and drive them out; he worked in the wheat fields and on a Columbia River steamboat, met the six-fingered Indian friend of his boyhood just before the Indian was murdered. Deciding that Luce...