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...while trying to buck their riders off. The great White Pacing Stallion, the most famous mustang of them all, was captured after a pursuit of more than 200 miles, but proudly refused to eat in captivity and died. Wildest of all was "the massive steel-dust stallion" described by Blackfoot Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. When his herd was corraled, the stallion went mad with fury and frustration. He murdered two other young stallions, fought off a dozen men with rawhide lariats, climbed over a seven-foot fence, smashed through a barrier of logs, charged into the open prairie...
...1790s the Western movement had reached the Mississippi, and the frontiersmen saw nothing in the way of a final push to the Pacific except Blackfoot Indians, grizzly bears and federal bureaucrats. Though President James Monroe in 1825 had forever prohibited any U.S. settlement beyond the upper Mississippi and the present states of Missouri and Arkansas, the frontiersmen paid no attention. By the time Monroe's proclamation reached the frontier, it had been pushed as far west as Spanish Texas and Santa Fe. The grizzlies were similarly surmountable. Pathfinder Jedediah Smith jerked his mangled head from the jaws...
...Great Falls, Mont., where he visited the white clapboard house of Patrick Mansfield, 88-year-old father of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, and posed for the classic campaign shot with Blackfoot Indians from his honorary tribe (his tribal name: "High Eagle"), the President forsook conservation. He talked of the greatness of America, of the missile threat, of the frustrations of the present age, and of his hopes for the future...
Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot (?-1890), Blackfoot chief: "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...
...spot study in a 50-sq. mi. section of Formosa's west coast to find the source of ''blackfoot," a locally common arterial disease that causes fingers and toes to become gangrenous; sometimes the victim loses both hands and feet...