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...behavior of the mule and the inefficiency of scene-shifters, the opening of Rainbow was a long affair, and not so auspicious as it should have been. The story, which had an epic air, concerned a buckskin buccaneer who broke jail and joined the California gold rush, gathering women on the way. His maneuvers led him to pleasing spots, where gaming tables were and where prospectors plied their toothpicks or sang unruly songs...
...taste of wine, A face half-seen with candleshine, A yellow river, a blowing dust. . . . In the North, Jack Ellyat pitied the fugitive slave, "a black man with the eyes of a tortured horse," but he thought of new states crowding to be admitted to the Union: The buckskin-States, the buffalo-horned, the wild Mustangs with coats the color of crude gold. . . . And must they wait like spayed mares in the rain, While Carolina and Connecticut Fight an old quarrel out before a ghost? . . . And from the mountains, came reluctant stragglers wondering just who their enemies were: "Dunno...
...HOUSTON, COLOSSUS IN BUCKSKIN-George Creel-Cosmopolitan ($3). The annexation of Texas was so much a matter of politics that the real issues, violent and blood-spattered, are dimmed. George Creel* brings them to light through the colorful story of Sam Houston, dreamer, drunkard, man of action. A youth, in Tennessee, he showed dangerous scholastic tendencies, poring over Pope's Iliad, so his brothers set him clerking in the village store. Seeking refuge with the Cherokees, Sam announced in grandiloquent terms worthy of his master, Pope, that he preferred measuring deer tracks to tape; and later married a squaw...
...worth fifty dollars a minute," but Frémont did not know it. He arrived in California to find gold-mad whitemen, redmen, yellowmen, blackmen, and himself the owner of the golden Mariposa veins. His wife came by boat and soon their home was filled with "hundred-pound buckskin sacks, worth not far from $25,000 each." California's richest man and most popular idol, Frémont was elected U. S. Senator. He spent little time in Washington and was defeated for a second term. So he took a trip to Europe with Jessie...
...Buckskin Beatitude...