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...which tells the story of Genghis Khan and the world he made, is a splendid slice of history. First published in German in 1938, it is the work of a Russian scholar with a flair for narrative. As it courses back & forth across Eurasia, following the fierce Mon gol horsemen, the book reads less like a scholar's chronicle than a majestic folk epic...
Genghis Khan succeeded because he understood that an army of primitive horsemen could defeat civilized nations only if it kept complete discipline, constant mobility and immense hardihood. In his march through western Asia, after his conquest of China, he drove his troops over mountains 20,000 ft. high. The horses were accustomed to forage beneath the snow; the men, in extremities, would open the veins of their horses, drink someof the hot blood and then close the wounds...
...recent pictures as No. 14, The Snows of Kilimanjaro ($6,500,000), will probably rise as they continue to play around the world. A few well-remembered oldtimers are still on the list: No. 21, The Big Parade (1925), with John Gilbert, $5,500,000; No. 46, The Four Horsemen (1921), with Rudolph Valentino, $4,500,000; No. 83, Ben Hur (1926), with Ramon Novarro...
...Alaska visit in 1946 gave Wilber the material for two of his best scripts, A Long Night in Forty Mile and Two Pale Horsemen. Alaska also gave him a touch of gold fever. He does not think of TV writing as a lifework. What he wants to do is make enough money to head back to the Klondike in style. He says, mysteriously: "I know of a lost vein on a ridge between the Chitanana and the Cosna Rivers. I'm going to go back there...
Both were fine horsemen and were considered good, hard-working ranch hands, even though Hugh had killed a conductor on the Oregon Short Line Railroad earlier in the summer, and had a $1,500 price tag on his head. Bank Cashier A. D. Noblitt spoke carefully when they walked in on him and began waving their six-guns under his nose-he had to tell them that the time lock on the vault would not open for an hour and a half...