Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas

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A crowded city makes Colonel Crockett feel more alone than the remote places he recalls in his letters home. Christmas in New York has left him with money, a comfortable hotel and nobody to share his dinner. Writing to his wife, he compares that miserable evening with a shipwreck and a fever suffered while prospecting. He decides to bring other strangers together by renting Madison Square Garden for a holiday party.

Rupert Hughes builds the story around the colonel's letters, whose informal speech turns homesickness into comedy. Crockett's generous plan runs into questions about admission, advertising and crowd size. A publicity expert arrives convinced that the invitation must conceal a business scheme. These encounters give readers a humorous account of hospitality meeting city suspicion, with the practical arrangements of a Christmas celebration growing out of one man's need for company.

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Rupert Hughes

Rupert Hughes (1872-1956) was an American novelist, historian, and filmmaker, a versatile and best-selling author of his era and uncle of the aviator Howard Hughes.