Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interviewed she said: "My new name was that of an Indian Queen born centuries before Christ. ... I am now a Hindu, but I hope that the true spirit of Christianity will continue to guide...
Imperial Airways, the only organization in Britain operating regular air routes, is to be subsidized by the Government until 1939, when it is expected to pay for itself. Delhi, it was learned last week, is to be pushed as a new Indian terminus. Thus is success rewarded, for last year Imperial Airways carried 52,000 passengers 2,500,000 miles without accident to a single passenger...
...West his own country. At 15, he was apprenticed to a saddler. He ran away after a few months to become a "mountain man." Soon he was counted among the best. He knew the habits of game animals, was well versed in customs and mental processes of the Indian. He had a reputation for absolute truthfulness and reliability, and was a crack shot. He never learned to read or write (except his name), but he knew Mexican Spanish, Canadian French, and a half dozen Indian tongues. He was the first white man to become a cowboy, the greatest Indian fighter...
...three wives in eight years-the first two were Indian squaws whom he married according to Indian custom. The third was a beautiful Spanish girl, Josefa. They were married by a Catholic priest...
...hard for John Charles Fremont, adventurer (TIME, March 12), to realize that Kit was a devil incarnate in an Indian fight. Fremont, generous, press-agented the unassuming Kit, who helped him capture territory from the Mexicans and make California a part of the U. S. As a lieutenant, Kit took part in Fremont's quarrel with General Kearney in the California conquest. The U. S. Government was unwilling to confirm Kit's commission; and thus his two years' service to his country under Fremont went unpaid and unrecognized. Kit regarded the Army as an unmixed curse...