Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, 79, author of the everlasting, best-selling The Lodger (1913); in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, England. "Mrs. Belloc Lowndes," sister of Author Hilaire Belloc, was a trail blazer and old settler in psychological-crime mysteries, wrote more than 35 novels in 40 years, mostly about nice people with snarled-up psyches...
...casual student of the pioneer era. American authors have universally glorified the Oregon Trial to the practical exclusion of all else. Multiplying with rabbit like precision, their books are the foundation of a narrow and inaccurate impression of western expansion. The title "pioneer" becomes exclusive property of the settler and the drive for a continent rests on the time-table of a wagon train snaking its way westward. "Across the Wide Missouri" deals in more basic factors; it points out a Rocky Mountain for empire that looted the west long before the first covered wagon became even a dream...
...rummaging through attics and barns. They got oldtimers to tell them stories of the old days. One San Antonio high school helped preserve an old Mexican settlement, La Villita, around which San Antonio grew. A Junior Historian in Wichita Falls, Tex. made the fattest find of all: a pioneer settler's 82-volume diary...
...before he left the territory, Cap Krug announced the release of 18 million acres of Government land, much of it freed by narrowing the five-mile right-of-way along the Alaska Highway to 300 feet. He also surprised many an old settler by advocating statehood (Alaskans will vote on the question on Oct. 8) and the construction of a railroad through Canada to the "outside...
...History, which is rather uncertain, mentions a Jonas Bronk, or Bronck, either a Dutchman or Scandinavian, who was the first settler, around...