Word: furs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under "In Reno."' June 15, "True to the canons of Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson. . . ." Every western writer of "westerns" knows that Hickok was a two-gun law man; one of the genuine gun fighters of the West. That Kit Carson was a "mountain man" of the fur trader period; a time before the gunslinging, gunfighting period when "Colt was King" at Dodge...
William MacLeod Raine's Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws gives you the two-gun period. Leroy Hafen's Broken Hand, a story of the famous fur trader and Indian agent Fitzpatrick, gives the code of the mountain...
...Great-grandson of Fur Dealer John Jacob Astor, the original founder of the Astor fortune. As a young man he was a member of the New York State legislature (1877-81). Afterward he served as U. S. Minister to Italy for three years, published two romances, Valentine, Sjorza. In 1899 he became a naturalized British citizen. He was created a peer in 1916, a viscount...
...thing has awful import in the ice desert. The Germans clambered over the ridged ice to the skis, chopped them loose, chopped deeper into the frozen snow until they found the body of lost Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener. The body was carefully sewn within two blankets and covered with fur coats. The last chapter of Professor Wegener's career was clear...
...side industry popular among U. S. countryfolk is raising rabbits to sell for fur and meat. But last week into the bankruptcy court of East St. Louis, Ill., marched Mrs. Anna R. Brown of Chester, Ill., a rabbit-raiser of wide renown. She had debts of $39,570. Her only assets were 300 rabbits. Like other big rabbit-raisers, Mrs. Brown had done business in this fashion: Starting with a few rabbits of pedigreed stock, she would farm out pairs of their offspring to smaller raisers, promising to buy the grandchildren back at $2 a head.* Then she would market...