"Bless The Beasts & Children" by Glendon Swarthout is an early 1970s novel about a group of misfit children who identify with the plight of a group of doomed buffalo and try to save them.
Cotton, Lally1,Lally2,Goodenow,Shecker, and Teft are self-described "dings" who are banished to an Arizona boys camp by affluent,self-absorbed parents.
The boys eventually end up as "bedwetters" the very bottom of the camp's social structure. Led by their leader Cotton, the boys try to redeem themselves by saving a herd of buffalo that going to be culled by hunters.
Bless The Beasts & Children is a good time capsule of a period when young Americans cared about something beyond the latest electronic gadget.
Cotton, Lally1,Lally2,Goodenow,Shecker, and Teft are self-described "dings" who are banished to an Arizona boys camp by affluent,self-absorbed parents.
The boys eventually end up as "bedwetters" the very bottom of the camp's social structure. Led by their leader Cotton, the boys try to redeem themselves by saving a herd of buffalo that going to be culled by hunters.
Bless The Beasts & Children is a good time capsule of a period when young Americans cared about something beyond the latest electronic gadget.
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