Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowhere in the letter is there any explanation of what the "affidavit" is to be used for. Lacy, who Hyon in Kirkland House and has his home in Buffalo, is, therefore, rather chary of taking any direct action for fear he may become involved in a political whirlpool...
...lawyer, Robert M. Codd Jr. of Buffalo, explained that the whole proceeding against him was illegal. Since 1893 New York has had a law which says: ". . . no person shall maintain an action on a contract against any Indian of the . . . Seneca Nation . . . and every person who prosecutes such an action shall be liable to treble costs to the party aggrieved...
...satisfy half-a-dozen ordinary men. His enormous library contains large sections on Africa, astronomy, bird life, reptiles, fungi, biography and geology. Books litter all his rooms, and jammed in every corner of Dr. Kelly's house are snakeskins, turtle shells, stuffed birds, a duck-billed platypus, buffalo legs. Up to a few years ago Dr. Kelly kept a zoo of 20-odd live snakes in a chamber...
...size of a calf, were called antelope on sight by the Adam-pioneers. Before those pioneers plowed under the grass of the Great Plains, ''antelope" herds roamed from Texas to Canada, from the Mississippi to the Cascades. Because of unrestricted killing, by 1911 the pronghorns, like the buffalo, were threatened with extinction. But pronghorn herds, now well protected, have staged a reproductive comeback: in Oregon alone, according to the State Game Commission, they have increased tenfold...
...Manhattan. In 1900 Crowe helped kidnap 15-year-old Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. (now president of Cudahy Packing Co.) in Omaha, Neb. When he was apprehended five years later, he charged Cudahy with engineering the plot himself. The jury acquitted him. In 1929 the Bertillon Bureau of the Buffalo police checked the fingerprints of a suicide, identified him as Crowe. Same day Pat Crowe, then reformed, walked vehemently into Manhattan's police headquarters to deny his death...