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...centers will be closed; all new immigrants will be taken to a reception center big enough to house 2,500 now building in El Trompillo, near Puerto Cabello, where some are already living in Quonset huts. Puerto Cabello is 130 miles from the lures of the capital. Venezuela wants frontiersmen...
...Holders circled the Motilon territory, visiting towns in Venezuela and Colombia which had been close and nervous neighbors of the Motilones for several hundred years. heard enough Indian tales to fill a dozen pulp magazines, but they could not find a single "acultural individual." The Spanish-speaking frontiersmen, many of them outlaws, are tough characters themselves. But none had been tough enough to take up life among the Indians. No Motilon deserter to the out side world was ever found...
...pure air and listening to the sounds of the forest, the wind in the trees, the bells on the horses, sometimes the distant howling of wolves. Often he lay awake at night, seeing the moon and stars through the treetops and listening to the subdued talk of the frontiersmen...
Under the stress of challenging scarcity, Harvardmen have displayed to a remarkable degree the rugged stuff with which their pioneer forbears subdued a wilderness. Like the frontiersmen of old, they sit around on tart December nights and tell of adventures in the search for subsistence...
...advanced to the Juniata. The Forest and the Fort chiefly concerned the adventures of Salathiel Al-bine, who was kidnapped and brought up by the Indians, grew into a 6 ft. 4 in. paleface with muscles like "fluid oak wood." Salathiel reappears in Bedford Village as one of seven frontiersmen who help Captain Jack Fenwick carry out his vow to exterminate the Indians...