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First published eight years ago by Scribner, under the title Lige Mounts: Free Trapper, this commendable novel tells of the making of a frontiersman, rather than the life of one. Its distinction does not lie in the story, which is adequate but not unusual: Lige, aged 19 in 1822, is caught up in the frontier enthusiasm, joins three companions in St. Louis, goes up the Missouri to the Yellowstone and on up to the Marias for a winter's trapping. One of the men is killed in a brush with the Gros Ventre Indians, the other...
Sued. Zane Grey, prolific author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...
...since the 17th Century, Professor Craigie and his corps of graduate students have culled over 400,000 quotations in which English words and phrases are used for the first time in a uniquely American sense. Among the state papers of Virginia was discovered, for example, a letter from a frontiersman in 1746 asking for permission to form a militia company for protection against the Indians. In this communication occurs the original usage of the word "back-woods." The list of Americanisms and the dates upon which they first attained their peculiar U. S. connotation, reported Professor Craigie, "already forms...
Died. Kit Carson Jr., 70, of Taos, N. Mex., son of the famed frontiersman; in La Junta. Col. He was buried in Taos beside his father, who died...
...Indians of Teras. Jackson remarked: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor." Indeed, Houston looked it: 6 ft. 3 in. in moccasins, straight as an arrow, with deep, flashing eyes, high forehead, dressed like a frontiersman in leggings, hunting shirt and coonskin...