Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court of claims awarded the Utes their record-breaking judgments -$31,700,000, or about $10,000 for every man, woman & child (though probably the tribe, and not its members, would get the money). Grunted a long-haired old Ute, still dissatisfied with the bargain: "It is better than buffalo soldiers,* but the Colorado land is richer than this money...
Before an awesome bonfire in the South Dakota buffalo-grass country, Ben American Horse, Head Chief of the Sioux, presented Cinemactor Van (Act of Violence) Heflin with a feathered warbonnet and the title of Looking Horse, formally adopted him into the tribe...
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...Strenuous Life. Despite the low rates, dime novels were written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia physician, a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a parson's daughter...
Constitutionalist. In Buffalo, Democratic County Clerk Steven Pankow explained why he had bought $125 worth of tickets for the Erie County Republican Committee's yearly outing: "I believe in the two-party system...