− New Repub 24:100 S 22 ’20 2100w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p783 N 25 ’20 70w
CROY, HOMER. Turkey Bowman. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–16795
Like the author’s novel “Boone Stop” this is a story of boy life in the West. But it pictures a somewhat earlier period when the Indians were not yet subdued and when Indian uprisings were to be feared. The young hero, Turkey Bowman, jilted by the girl he has fallen in love with, runs away from home in company with a somewhat older vagabond who shares his opinion of the sex. Slim too has a broken heart and the two are drawn together in misery. They have various wandering adventures and settle down for a time on a cattle ranch. Slim eventually changes his attitude toward women and Turkey carries news of a proposed Indian raid to the army post and returns home a hero.
“Turkey is always amusing, and he is a very human boy.”
+ Boston Transcript p5 D 4 ’20 340w
“There is real humor crammed into the pages, the juvenile principals are real boys and described true to nature, while there is no taint of artificial coloring in description or action.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 110w
CROZIER, WILLIAM. Ordnance and the world war. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner 940.373