Word: cowmen
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Tonight at Brattle Hall the spirit of the old West will flare up and flame again in the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production, "The Chisholm Trail." Hard-riding, six-gun toting cowmen will vie with invading homesteaders for the fertile grazing plains of Nebraska in 1886. The scenes of the play give a typical picture of life as it actually was among the plainsmen of Buffalo Bill...
...study in reticences. Charm conquers incredibility when, on 24 hours' notice, Mercedes Garcia of polyglot Pennsylvania origin marries Stephen Londreth, rancher-runaway from Philadelphia's aristocracy. The continental poetry of Wyoming, in the second place, emerges with clarity and sublimity; from the grave, racy, accurate talk of cowmen about their animals, to the ineffable silence of mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance amply justified by the writer's competence...
...plains, especially soldiers and Indians, after study at Yale and in New York. Charles Marion Russell is dead (1926). He had lived in Montana since the age of 15, a son of the saddle who knew most of his state from the Tetons to the Yellowstone, most of the cowmen from Great Falls to Miles City, most of the dodges of calves at branding time, steers on the range, cayuses at a rodeo. He modeled and painted the "puncher's" life so well that in 1925 the Montana Board of Education awarded him an honorary...