COOLIDGE, DANE. Wunpost. *$2 Dutton
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“‘Wunpost’ was the nickname bestowed on John C. Calhoun, who, though he came from a good old southern family and had ‘the profile of a bronze Greek god,’ was nevertheless so illiterate that, when he found a gold mine and decided to call it the ‘One post,’ he spelled the name ‘Wunpost.’ He had a habit of finding gold mines. During the course of the narrative he discovers no less than three, but he is cheated out of two of them by the wickedness and ingenuity of old Judson Eells and his ‘yaller dog,’ Lapham, the lawyer who thoroughly understood how to draw up a contract of the most deceptive kind. ‘Wunpost’ went to work to get even with Eells, with Lapham, and with ‘Pisenface’ Lynch, who was Eells’s ‘hired mankiller and professional claim-jumper.’ Of course he succeeded. But meanwhile he learned something about the dangers of boasting, had any number of adventures, including one with an Indian scout whom he outwitted and made a trip across the famous Death valley, besides falling in love.”—N Y Times
+ Booklist 17:31 O ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 320w
“The best of this book is the descriptions.”
+ − N Y Times 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 390w
“The work is an excellent specimen of the better class of western fiction, glowing with local color, featured by continuous and well sustained action and containing an abundance of its own variety of love and adventure.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 100w
COOPER, HENRY ST JOHN. Sunny Ducrow. *$1.90 (1½c) Putnam