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...hero of The Big Sky is a raw Kentucky boy named Boone Caudill who goes West after he hits his Pap a lick with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...
...Peanut Vendor. No New Dealer, Al Browning has sometimes voted Republican, is a businessman's businessman. He was pleasantly inducted into the virtues of free enterprise as a teen-aged boy in his home town of Blackfoot, Idaho. He got a job selling peanuts at village and county fairs, made only $1 a day on salary. When he persuaded his employer to put him on a commission (penny a bag) he hustled fast enough to make $3.50 a day, decided he was going to become a salesman...
Governor Charles C. Gossett of Idaho, still house-hunting eleven months after his election to office, had a bright idea: he appointed a Boise doctor head of a state hospital at Blackfoot, promptly rented the doctor's Boise house...
Misnomenclature. In Denver, a Blackfoot Indian named Melvin Forgets-Nothing arrived at his recruiting office nearly a day late for his physical examination...
Good fare for children is the simple Blackfoot fable Why People Die Forever ("so that we shall be sorry for each other"), the Confucianist fable With Deer's Milk He Supplied His Parents. By & large Editor Smith leaves out the sort of stories that Sunday-school teachers rely on. Her Old Testament anthology omits the tales of Joshua, Gideon, Samson and Daniel in favor of the minor prophets Amos, Hosea and Micah...