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Died. Gordon William ("Pawnee Bill") Lillie, 81, long-haired frontiersman, Wild West showman; in Pawnee, Okla. Trapper and buffalo hunter, he was the last surviving leader of the "Boomers," homesteaders who rushed to settle the Indian Territory now Oklahoma...
...Frontiersman Robert Metcalf first stumbled on the green-stained rocks of the Morenci bed 70 years ago. Its exposed ore was so rich it was "quarried rather than mined." But by 1932, after yielding 1,800,000,000 lb. of copper, the high-grade open veins were played out, the underground low-grade (1.06%) ore too costly to work for a 6? copper market. Morenci became another ghost town...
...years go past upon his voice, carrying with them the rustle of the buffalo grass, the song of the loggers and the boatmen, and the Civil War's distant thunder; the Vag sees the gleam of the frontiersman's rifle and bridle fall to the ground and become the glint of the first railroad track across America. On either side of the rails the corn and wheat springs up with the houses, and the Indian mounts his pony and rides away forever...
...relief from the New Deal. If the New Deal had stifled such men's pioneer spirit, a Mexican President might well bring it back. Scarcely had the inaugural words "private initiative" died on his lips when Avila Camacho went down under a deluge of U. S. pioneers. No frontiersman himself, Mexico's new President was bewildered but happy-he liked them...
...mouth, of U. S. aristocracy. His mother, Catherine Key Pittman, was of the Marshalls of Virginia, and descendant of Francis Scott Key; his father, William Buckner Pittman, had as ancestors the Pittmans of North Carolina, the Buckners of Kentucky. It was a magazine cover that made a frontiersman out of wealthy, idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom, when he saw on a chair a brilliantly colored hunting magazine, its cover...