. . . a negative review of Fourteen Western Stories. Oh, well — onto each venture of the heart a little rain must fall.
This book didn’t do anything for me. A couple of the stories bordered on bizarre and several others ended so abruptly I thought I was missing something.
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. . . for her trip to Korea to entertain the troops.
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According to Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, Underwood Deviled Ham was a cowboy favorite in frontier Wyoming, along with tinned sardines, and a heated-up chunk of canned corned beef was likely to be served to you as the main course at a restaurant or boarding house in a small frontier town.
The deviled ham is palatable, spread on a cracker — the canned corned beef has a quality of dog food about it, faintly savory, faintly repulsive. Wister said that fresh chickens and eggs were rare on the frontier, along with milk and butter, and that fresh vegetables were all but unknown.
Beef and beans were the staples of a cowboy’s diet, with some bacon or fresh-caught trout now and then if he got lucky. Home gardens, milk cows and chicken coops were brought to the frontier by women who married ranchers, and were otherwise considered unmanly things to truck with.
If you want to eat like a real cowboy, have some fried or stewed or barbecued beef, some beans, and some meat or fish out of a can.
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And here’s a little background on Slapsy Maxie’s from Jerry Lewis — via Bryan Castañeda:
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Worn by the figure of Robert Gould Shaw in Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s bronze monument to Shaw and his men on the Boston Common.
It’s a very great work of art.
Autochrome, 1918.
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Beekeepers. With thanks to Amy Crehore.
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My sister sends me a photograph of her copy of the Fourteen Western Stories paperback, in good company.
Meanwhile, a new review of the Kindle edition:
Worth every penny I paid for it:
I read during my breaks at work, these are great short stories for break time. I enjoyed all fourteen stories.
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