Word: smacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOOK OF THE AMERICAN WEST edited by Jay Monaghan. 608 pages. Julian Messner. $22.50. On the theory that, despite the efforts of television, there are still a few Americans who would not know a waddy (cowboy) from his gelding-smacker (saddle), this volume ranges over the life of the West, devoting whole chapters to its outlaws, reptiles, guns, big game, songs and legends. The text is informative, the paintings and drawings, by Remington, Bierstadt, Russell and others, are splendidly direct and realistic, and much of what a reader might have taken for shaggy Western lore turns out surprisingly...
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