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...torch. Terrified natives opened their granary to the armed trespassers, knowing that meant some of their own people would likely starve come winter. Returning from one such mission of foraging and gunboat diplomacy, Smith found disgruntled settlers trying to commandeer a ship back to London. He opened cannon and musket fire on the would-be deserters, who quickly reassessed and came ashore...
...editors, though, are wimps. They were afraid that my pursuit of historical accuracy--killing a buffalo with a black-powder musket, for instance--would upset you. They were also concerned about the law, in terms of eating animals like grizzly bear, beaver, horse and whale. Worst of all, they certainly weren't going to let me eat dog. The Corps of Discovery reached the Upper Columbia during the run of the fall Chinook and coho salmon. But instead of eating the fish, they bought the local tribes' dogs for butchering. Bill Yallup Jr., a descendant of Lewis and Clark...
...colleague Bill Saporito and the help of reporter Deirdre van Dyk, I went on a 700-mile road trip along the trail, taking my 8-year-old son Harry with me to act as a one-kid focus group on its educational prospects. He was mesmerized by a musket demonstration in Great Falls, Mont., and the sight of a stuffed grizzly bear in nearly every public building, though he did question the need to drive 200 miles to see if Sacagawea's landmark of Beaverhead Rock really looks like one. (From the right angle, yes.) We hope...
...Fired a musket at British kid who lives upstairs...
Hannibal had his elephants, Rommel had his panzers and Bill Heinecke has his pizzas. And the pizza war is every bit as brutal as those fought by bow or musket or machine gun. That's why Heinecke, 52, astride a Harley Davidson FX, is leading a squadron of 700 motorcycle delivery boys mounted on Hondas and Yamahas through Bangkok's Siam Square shopping district to publicize the launch of his new Pizza Company chain. But as he revs the engine on his hog, even this veteran of numerous thick-crust and double-cheese campaigns has his doubts: "What...