Word: rode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles' mother died early and he went to live with his grandmother on the Kaw reservation. There he frolicked with young redskins, taught tricks to puppies, rode ponies. At 8, he was a jockey in a state fair; Kansans cheered lustily for " ol' Captain Curtis' boy." There is a story that he was a Paul Revere at the age of 10; he rode 60 miles to Topeka to bring aid to the Kaws when the Cheyennes swooped down on their reservation. When the Kaws were sent to new lands in Oklahoma, he started out to go with them...
...recently in jest: "So, so! My tasks are nearly done. I have only to live until I find a wife for our five-year-old Crown Prince Peter" (TIME, May 10). The sap was running strong in M. Pashitch yet, it seemed. When he rode away to the Royal Palace it must have been to accept the Premiership for the twelfth time. Pashitch would take the helm. Everything would be all right...
...Spang Beauty" CORDELIA CHANTRELL - Meade Minnigerode-Putnam ($2). Among the quaint mysteries that survived the Civil War was that of The Messenger, or as she was later called, the Woman on Horseback, who rode back and forth through the Union lines apparently without the least difficulty and, according to rumor, often to the delight of gallant Union officers. This tale, a thoroughbred love story, purports to be that strange lady's biography...
...next day we rode a trail which climbs to a gap at the southern end of Langley ridge called Army Pass, and so on to the head of Rock Creek, a tributary of the Kern River, which itself finally reaches the San Joaquin valley at Bakersfield. Emerging into the pass, we came out on a broad granite plateau sloping gently west, an abrupt change from the tremendous cliffs skirted by the trail coming up from the east, and soon descended to first water and timber line, following Rock Creek down to 9,500 feet, three miles above its final plunge...
...third day we rode some four miles upstream to one of the highest lakes. We left the stock at the lake, to feed on the meadow, and, following the trail on foot to 12,000 feet, entered the "chimney"a narrow cleft in the granite, some 150 feet wide, which extends straight up the slope for 1,000 or so feet and enables one to get through the cliffs to the upper final slope of the crest, some distance south of the summit...