“An excellent piece of work. The book will be a valuable supplement to school study of our national history and it will stimulate a healthy national pride.”
+ Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 100w Outlook 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w + Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 180w
EVARTS, HAL GEORGE. Cross pull. *$1.90 (3½c) Knopf
20–4269
The hero of this story is Flash, a cross between wolf, coyote and dog. Clark Moran took him as a puppy and tamed him and the dog in him responded to kindness. To one other Flash gives his allegiance, to Betty, the girl from the East who comes into the mountains. To most other humans he is indifferent, but there is one he hates. The story tells how he served his two loved ones in a crisis, and how in so doing he took his own revenge on his enemy. In the end he settles down as a safe and trusted house dog, but there were times when the wild strain awakened and at those times, on still nights during the mating moon, certain civilized suburbanites would experience a primitive shudder at hearing the lone wolf’s call.
“Not over humanized or sentimentalized; one of the best dog stories.”
+ Booklist 16:243 Ap ’20
“A better novel it might have been, but a better animal study it could scarcely have been.”
+ − Boston Transcript p7 Je 23 ’20 200w