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...there will be enormous riches . . ." He was attacking the feasibility of authorizing $250 million more for the celebrated Pick-Sloan development on the Missouri River. Said Fair Dealer Douglas: "I think it is a very serious question whether the United States of America needs a nine-foot channel from Sioux City to Kansas City...
...last straw. Said he: "I protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...
...first is technical accuracy. Cavalrymen did not wear dress uniforms into battle, as they do in "Buffalo Bill." Given the better part of Montana to fight in, they presumably did not pick a deep and narrow gulch, largely under water, while hordes of enterprising Sioux lay above poking out their rifles from behind many convenient rocks. An Indian is more apt to wear a battered fedora than a war bonnet. "Western Union's" Indians at least spoke Indian, or a reasonable facsimile of it, while "Buffalo Bill's" dog-warriors muttered monosyllables except for a chosen few who spoke fine...
Feike Feikema fits the large scale. His publishers think it relevant that he is 6 ft. 9 in. tall and the eldest of six brothers, all over 6 ft. 4. He has already written several sprawling novels of his native Sioux country which stirred the hayseed in many a city heart and established him as a prose bard of the tall corn. Now he plans a triple-decker to be called World's Wanderer, of which The Primitive is Part...
...subject. Feikema wrote in his earlier books of the natural elements, and Nature was adequate to absorb his emotions and his song. He was always likable and often convincing when he described the earth and sky and the changing seasons or paraphrased the weather report out in Sioux-land. When he writes of the intellectual life of Christian College, he is seldom as likable and never convincing. At best, he doggedly describes freshman themes, the lectures and the changing curricula. At worst, he peevishly rehearses "the arid one-testicled theories" of the American humanists, or sports, with grim intent, through...