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Daniel F. Carmack--Elizabeth Blau (Bryn Mawr...
Ethnologist Adney has always been a curious fellow. As artist-correspondent for Harper's Weekly he covered the Klondike Gold Rush of '97, proved that Robert Henderson and not George ("Siwash") Carmack made the original strike. He came home, wrote a best seller (The Klondike Stampede), lectured and had his picture in a parka plastered on American billboards...
...Federal court dockets until 1963.) To get Thurman Arnold's records, Marcus threatened to subpoena everybody in the Justice Department. But once the case went to trial, his luck picked up. On the witness stand he placed Robert Carrnack, manager of the contractors' association for twelve years. Carmack, himself a defendant, amazed his fellows by waiving his right to refuse to testify. Instead, for three long weeks he told the whole sorry story of how the association had hiked prices, determined who would be the low bidder and at what figure...
...Editor Carmack was shot down for personal reasons after he had failed to beat Malcolm Rice ("Ham") Patterson, a Wet from Memphis, for the Governorship. In his martyrdom Carmack accomplished what his campaign failed of: the 1909 General Assembly's first act was to pass
...over Governor Patterson's veto) Tennessee's first prohibition law. (A second act: to erect a heroic Carmack statue at the Capitol's entrance...