Word: bison
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...artist who wanted to see the country he had read of in Chateaubriand and Fenimore Cooper. Starting on a rather conventional Grand Tour, he quit it to spend the summer of 1840 among the Osage Indians: in Nion-Chou, the greatest of their villages; in their summer hunt for bison; in their skirmishes with the subtle, horse-stealing Pawnees. His book, published in France in 1844, is now published in English for the first time, with his few, expert Indian drawings and excellent notes. It has caught, between the doctor's and the draftsman's eye, a remarkable...
...sunk a British battleship and a cruiser of the York class in operations off Namsos is untrue." Next day the Admiralty announced that no troopship had been touched, but that the "Stukas," diving wave after wave, did sink the heavy destroyer Afridi. The French Admiralty announced that their destroyer Bison was sunk in the same attack. The Poles in London verified the loss of their destroyer Grom off Narvik...
...heavy (1,870-ton) Afridi with two two-gun turrets fore and aft, might well be mistaken for the Queen Elizabeth, Warspite or Valiant, by landlubber air pilots traveling 300 m.p.h. a half-mile aloft. The big (2,436-ton) Bison, with three stacks, could less easily be mistaken for the two-stacked York...
...carnivores not yet identified; under that a layer of "sterile" yellow ochre (containing no bones or implements), showing that the cave was uninhabited during a wet spell; under that the Sandia layer (see cut), containing lance or javelin points, remains of fires, bones of elephants, horses, camels, sloths and bison...
...more recently discovered Folsom site in Colorado, the Lindenmeier site, .appeared on geological evidence to be even older. A point was found there actually imbedded in a bison vertebra. Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr., of Dr. Hrdlicka's own Smithsonian Institution, put its age at 20,000 years...