Word: hulbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson orators, who argued that a federal aid bill should not be adopted, were William C. Becker '51, and Richard W. Hulbert...
FORTY-NINERS (340 pp.)-Archer Butler Hulbert-Little, Brown...
...this year, and at least two of them are outstanding. Gold Rush Album is a handsome collection of pictures, cartoons, handbills and newspaper facsimiles from the great days of the rush. Forty-Niners is a new edition of what is now almost a classic work of research by Author Hulbert into the daily life of those who traveled overland. Together they give an unforgettable impression of a mighty movement of people, unorganized and yet queerly efficient, undisciplined and yet tenacious, unbeatable, ignorant, misled, unprepared, unaided, persisting despite almost every obstacle...
Prayers & Poisoned Water. Forty-Niners (first published in 1931) is the work of the late Professor Archer Hulbert of Colorado College, who gathered the materials for it while mapping the great trails across continental U.S. Hulbert imagined a "typical" wagon train-16 wagons, with four mules to each wagon and three spares, 125 Ibs. of flour for each man, as well as 50 Ibs. of ham, 50 Ibs. of bacon, 30 Ibs. of sugar, 6 Ibs. of coffee. He tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road...
There was something synthetic about the advertisements and appeals, the rumors and reports of gigantic nuggets, that set them on their way, and in Author Hulbert's account they seem to be half-aware of it. They persisted nevertheless...