George Cory Franklin
Autore di Wild Horses of the Rio Grande
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Opere di George Cory Franklin
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Friends to Man: The Wonderful World of Animals — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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- Opere
- 19
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 61
- Popolarità
- #274,234
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 2
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- 1
Originally published in 1957, this engaging animal story from George Cory Franklin is a sequel to his earlier Tricky: The Adventures of a Red Fox, which was published in 1949. Like its predecessor, Zorra: A Fox of the Mountains is set in the Five Rivers Country of Colorado, around the Gunnison River, where the author grew up. Interestingly, fellow children's author Rutherford George Montgomery, who wrote numerous animal stories, including one devoted to the adventures of a wolverine named Carcajou and his conflict with an Indian trapper, was also a resident of Gunnison County in the 1930s. There seems to be little biographical information available about Franklin, but his preface to Tricky makes it clear that he grew up and lived in the Five Rivers Country, making me wonder whether he was acquainted with Montgomery, and whether the brief appearance of Carcajou the wolverine in this story was a tribute to Montgomery's book, which was first published in 1936. Whatever the case may be, it's certainly interesting that these two authors lived in the same area for a time, wrote about the same kinds of animals, and were sometimes even illustrated by the same artist - L.D. Cram. As for Zorra, it was entertaining, although I continue to be troubled by the description of Cartier as a 'half-breed' trapper. The clear villain of the piece, his character is more fleshed out here than in Tricky, and the picture painted isn't flattering: Cartier's cabin is described as smelly and filthy (as opposed to the clean cabin of the two miners, Jack and Bill), and the man himself as someone who, "like many of his class," is brutal and indiscriminate in his killing. As with Tricky, provided that readers are aware of this potentially problematic aspect of the story, I would recommend Zorra to those readers interested in the depiction of foxes in children's literature, or in children's stories set in the Colorado Rockies, and to anyone who read and enjoyed Tricky.… (altro)