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...written in 1865, when seven bearded Swedes drifted out of the Big Horn Mountains, halted in a cottonwood grove to pan the gravel of an icy foothill creek. It was rich with coarse gold. They built a cabin, went feverishly to work. Three days later a band of Sioux swept down on them. Only two prospectors escaped. They headed for the Oregon Trail with three baking powder cans of gold, spent a fretful winter at Fort Laramie, then started back to claim the creek's treasure. They were never seen again...
Lois Thrasher, 32, had had seven years of reporting on the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus-Leader when she came to Chicago in 1942, just when many a big city's news room was converting from profanity to perfumery. Sent to cover a hotel murder case, she wangled a job as chambermaid, scrubbed seven bathrooms on her hands & knees, muttered: "I wouldn't do this for the man I love. I don't know why I do it for the Daily News." Last week, her scrubbing and striving rewarded by promotion, Night City Editor Thrasher was still...
Slow-talking, 36-year-old Farmer Butters did not launch his odd scheme without encountering certain difficulties. First he had to find some buffalo. The Government finally agreed to sell him a herd then roaming the Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. Then bankers were skittish about lending him the purchase price. Butters mortgaged his two farms and bought the herd...
Steamboats and Gold. Much of the country along the Missouri is still almost as wild as it was then. While Stanley Vestal was writing The Missouri near Sioux City, Iowa, the wild geese, held up in their spring flight by a six-inch snow, made such a racket that sleep was impossible. Through its loveliest country the Missouri is rich in historic sites that almost nobody ever sees because nobody ever uses the river for travel any more -old campgrounds, old trading posts and forts, Indian battlefields, old steamboat landings that date from the days when river boats pushed...
MILTON M. IDZAL, O.D. Sioux City...