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Behind one cluster of huts in a small gulch, the paratroopers had collected a bag of approximately 130 North Korean soldiers and a lone Chinese straggler. The P.W.s gaped at the drop zone, now bristling with the tanks, soldiers and guns of Task Force Growdon. Along the ridges and on the paddy fields within the paratroopers' perimeter lay some 300 dead North Korean Reds...
...classroom or sitting in his cluttered study. Professor Coy taught and talked history with the air of a reminiscent prospector. Over the years he traveled thousands of miles along pioneer trails, tabulated the names of more than 57,000 old California settlements, came to know as much about Grizzly Gulch, Whiskey Slide, Swellhead Diggings, Loafers' Flat and Lousy Level as any man alive...
Through the wide, empty Nebraska prairies, up into the gulch-seamed Wyoming plateaus where the snow still lay in the ditches, on up the old Oregon Trail along the Snake River canyon, Harry Truman unfurled his pattern for an expanding economy in a free world. Sure, he wanted to balance the budget and cut taxes, he said, "just as soon as we safely can. But I will not join in slashing Government expenses at the cost of our national security or national progress." His programs were not really expenditures; they were investments in the future. Cried Truman...
...first is technical accuracy. Cavalrymen did not wear dress uniforms into battle, as they do in "Buffalo Bill." Given the better part of Montana to fight in, they presumably did not pick a deep and narrow gulch, largely under water, while hordes of enterprising Sioux lay above poking out their rifles from behind many convenient rocks. An Indian is more apt to wear a battered fedora than a war bonnet. "Western Union's" Indians at least spoke Indian, or a reasonable facsimile of it, while "Buffalo Bill's" dog-warriors muttered monosyllables except for a chosen few who spoke fine...
...when silver was discovered in Leadville, the barren ravines leading to California Gulch swarmed with feverish thousands. In the gambling halls and Sallie Purple's fancy parlors, the bonanza kings strutted and roistered. "Haw" Tabor brought in the rich Little Pittsburgh, then the $10 million Matchless. Silver was everywhere a man might throw his pick, and the picks were thrown everywhere. The picks were sold by Charles Boettcher who, in the end, found a slower but surer bonanza...