Hal Herring on Colonel Cooper

As mentioned below. In his excellent Amazon review of To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth, Hal Herring writes: “…Cooper is an authentic American voice, and the rare man who has read and written as much as he has studied weaponry, ethics, and war. He is opinionated- I never agreed with him about the …

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Belated Answer

Too busy! But re “digs him up again” in Mesabi below: the ref is from Ezra Pound in his pre- Modernist period; from “Sestina: Altaforte”, his sketch of the warrior troubador Bertrans de Born. He prefaces the poem: “Dante Alghieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of strife. “Eccovi! …

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