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...timbered wilderness of north-central British Columbia is a rugged, snow-swept country, where frontiersmen fight for life-and often lose...
Stocky Vanique (he looks like a young John Garner) is prepared to spend two years among the Moriegos, Cara Preta and Chavantes Indians, some savage and hos tile, some half-civilized. His frontiersmen must chop out clearings for future Brazilian towns, must fight pumas, oncas (panthers) and the tamanduá, a giant ant-eating bear with a head and neck like a horse. They must convince Indians that an influx of settlers will be good. Be cause Brazil has a law prohibiting the use of firearms against Indians (TIME, Dec. 15, 1941), only the party's official hunters will...
These rugged frontiersmen make up one of the most highly specialized groups in the U.S. Army. Their assignments: 1) to explore unknown parts of the Aleutians and the coastal wildernesses of Alaska, with a wary eye for any sign of Japs; 2) to reconnoiter desolate islands and pave the way for landings in force...
...Potomac, he escorted migrant Mormons over the Oregon Trail, drove a mule train over the Rockies, rode herd on 300 mustangs bound from Sacramento to Omaha. He photographed the building of the Union Pacific, the boom days of Cripple Creek and Leadville, made camera records of the Indians and frontiersmen of the Wyoming Territory, gave stay-at-home Easterners their first graphic pictures of the West...
...Oklahomans. On April 22, 1889, a gunshot at noon opened the State's choice Indian Territory land to 20,000 settlers lined along the border. Racing frontiersmen found many of the best spots already occupied by border-jumpers who had got there "sooner." * In 1913, Carlton Chilton, then 17, grabbed $2,000 from a bank counter on the spur of the moment, while a clerk was out to lunch...