Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gunsmoke (Sat. 9 p.m.. CBS). Adult western series about a frontier marshal...
After several reels, Gardner kisses Taylor, whereupon Taylor slaps Gardner, which seems bad manners even in frontier Texas. Follow some shooting, riding, burning, and some pallid attempts by the scriptwriters to make the whole affair into a kind of road-company Shane. When at last the end arrives, slow as an old mule across the desert, it brings the funniest movie scene in years: Taylor and Quinn shooting each other dead and dropping to the barroom floor simultaneously, like well-rehearsed ballet dancers. Ride, Vaquero! has some exciting stretches, but Anthony Quinn as the bandit provides the only glimpses...
...than ever a vast and teeming monument to the Spirit of '76. The potent and bubbly brew of '76 was compounded of two unlike elements. Rebellion against tradition and authority, a spirit present in all men everywhere, was stepped up in America by the individualism of the frontier and the frontiersman's vision of a future that would escape and dwarf the past. This was part of the Spirit of '76, and it marched west with the mountain men, the wagon trains, the steam cars, and the jalopies of the Great Depression...
This is an old story to frontier historians, but until recently archaeologists have not known how many Indians had settled in pre-smallpox days along the Missouri River. The Smithsonian men have already found the sites of 500 sizable fortified villages, some of them with 400 lodges inside their walls. Had it not been for smallpox, the early settlers would have been tough adversaries for the wandering Sioux...
Smallpox leaves no marks on the bones of its victims, but the diggers found one grisly relic of the pestilence. A frontier tale has it that the plague-stricken Indians tossed their dead into food storage pits. The diggers excavated such a pit and found jumbled skeletons...