Word: redmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California by the southern route, almost died of starvation while some of his guides nibbled a human body. That was in 1849 when "time was worth fifty dollars a minute," but Frémont did not know it. He arrived in California to find gold-mad whitemen, redmen, yellowmen, blackmen, and himself the owner of the golden Mariposa veins. His wife came by boat and soon their home was filled with "hundred-pound buckskin sacks, worth not far from $25,000 each." California's richest man and most popular idol, Frémont was elected U. S. Senator...
...astonished thousands gathered in the university stadium, at Austin beheld two shining redmen enter the gate, cross the finish line, apparently still capable of more. They had covered the 89.4 miles in exactly...
...Sioux Indians headed by three chiefs clasped President Coolidge's hand. At their head was Chief Standing Bull, successor and relative of the late Sitting Bull. Chief Antelope and Chief Hollow Horn, who took part in the Custer Massacre of '76, were also in the party. The redmen were in Washington on account of certain property claims in the Black Hills...