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Review title: High Quality Page Turner
Product review: This book proves there wasn't just a wild west, but a wild south. Matthiesen does an excellent job in portraying a region, its inhabitants, and one person who has a strong effect on both. The character of Watson is fascinating: dangerously violent (especially when drunk),yet capable of generosity and of fathering and providing for a family, aided by his entrepreneurial skills. He is, as one of the earlier settlers in the Everglades describes him, "accursed:" someone who is fated to bring trouble on himself wherever he goes. He may have killed Belle Starr in the Oklahoma Territory, and is the author of at least a few killings throughout the book. In using various voices to describe the man, Matthiessen underscores the subjectivity of experience, the importance of history and racial attitudes in a landscape over a two-decade period: from wilderness to exploitation then ultimate development.
