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...CORKUM Sioux City, Iowa...
...landed in New York from a freighter and headed west. For three years he rode the range in the Dakotas and Iowa, then covered the trial of a brewer for the murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux City. That got him back into the newspaper business and he moved on to the St. Paul Globe and then the Minneapolis Journal, which paid him $30 a week to be sports editor and cover special events such as the last war with the Indians...
...Brokennose." Dr. Charlie took his earliest lessons in anatomy as a small boy. In the Sioux uprising of 1862 Dr. William Worrall Mayo, father of the two famed brothers, had helped capture 38 big, powerful Indians, helped string them up wholesale along the banks of the Minnesota River. Scientifically-minded settlers who wanted a dead Indian could help themselves. "Father got Chief Broken-nose," wrote Dr. Charlie many years later. "We had a large kettle and that is where Will and I studied bones...
...bought his equipment from Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway, which hauled $700,000,000 in gold and silver from Comstock Lode, got an ICC railroad operator's license to transport V&T's 37 vintage cars to location (at 15 m.p.h.). > He persuaded 700 reluctant Piutes, Sioux, Cheyennes and Navahos, some of whom had steady jobs on WPA to work in breechclouts, despite low temperatures Chuckled Mr. DeMille when the thermometer once approached zero: "First time I ever saw a red man turn blue." > Disliking the looks of contemporary Cheyenne, he built a pioneer Cheyenne...
...aghast at it all, except when he added up the profits). The Herald's, legion of homesick readers gladly paid 5? to read its cabled news from New York, its "Letters From the Mailbag" (occasionally staff-written), its classified ads for apartments and friendships, its homey items from Sioux City and Dallas...