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Ranging far & wide throughout the Indian uprisings, Cross painted as he went. To do a proper job, he learned at least one Indian tongue (Sioux) and became a practiced frontiersman. Before his death in 1918. he created a pictorial Who's Who of the fierce, lost tribes of the West, along with a fat file of white scouts, explorers and fighters. The four Cross portraits on the following page are from a collection of 135 which is now owned by the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa. No less an authority than Buffalo Bill once praised the portraits as "striking likenesses...
Farmers switched in Iowa too. Ike was leading in heavily pro-labor Wapello County, in Holland-Dutch Sioux County, and in heavily Catholic Dubuque County...
...Which? Dr. Hammon was reporting on results of the $1,000,000 tests (paid for by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) in Provo, Utah, Sioux City, Iowa, and Houston (TIME, July 14). In all, 54,772 children aged one to eleven got inoculations while polio epidemics were raging. Half the children received shots of gamma globulin, the small fraction of human blood which contains protective antibodies. The other half received useless (but harmless) gelatin. Nobody, not even the doctors, knew at the time which child got which shot...
...Savage (Paramount) considers the predicament of a white boy adopted by Sioux Indians. In time, the youth grows up to be a handsome brave named Warbonnet (Charlton Heston). When his foster father Chief Yellow Eagle goes to war with the white men, Warbonnet's loyalties are naturally torn. Matters become even more complicated when Warbonnet falls in love with a white girl (Susan Morrow...
...American Revolution, and think they are siding with George Washington. They actually should be thinking, say the French, of their own Indian wars, and should realize that they are siding with Sitting Bull, while committed by a military alliance to General Custer. The American dilemma: What happens if the Sioux go seriously on the warpath and Custer decides to make a last stand? America's great military bases in North Africa are in Indian territory...