Word: colter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until that time few reputable witnesses had ever seen the wonders of the Yellow stone. In 1806 John Colter, a private soldier in the Lewis & Clark expedition, came back with stories of hot fountains and pools of yellow, pink and green mud too fantastic to be believed. In 1869 three amateur explorers made a 36-day pack trip into what was already known as "Colter's Hell," came back to report that they were so overwhelmed by what they saw that they would not risk their reputations by describing...
Last month in her little schoolhouse outside Maryville, Mo., Schoolma'am Velma Colter, 20, was raped, murdered. To the crime Raymond Gunn, Negro, confessed. Last week he was being taken from the Maryville jail to the courthouse to stand trial when a mob snatched him out of the hands of Sheriff Havre English, noisily marched him out of town toward the rural schoolhouse. Hundreds followed the procession, heard Gunn beg for mercy...