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Fort Pitt is a stockaded outpost, threatened by Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...
...Victorian age, the characters surrounding Gus Burgoyne provide the real heart and value of the book. Mr. Duncan understands the people in his novel; he allows each the perspective of a lifetime and successfully defines the mixture of lunacy and showmanship that makes a trooper. A keen-witted horse trader from Vermont, a bewildered pair of acrobats, and a lion tamer with a complex for abusing both cats and women are all drawn with infinite shading and welded together through the common denominator of their business...
...despoiled a Scottish maid between the act of shooting grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind of sense and this makes little or none. Readers will admire Ruark's choice of target...
During most of his adult life, easygoing Earl S. Tupper, 40, has described himself as "a ham inventor and Yankee trader." By last week, one of his inventions-an unbreakable, flexible, shape-retaining plastic which can be moulded into all sorts of containers-was forcing him to temper the "ham" and drop the "trader" entirely...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...