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...general public. In Washington last week McCoy's broncos seemed all too sadly busted. First, F. Stewart Stranahan of Providence, R. L, with a $17,500 claim against the show, threw it into receivership. Then, padding at Stranahan's heels, a delegation of McCoy's Sioux Redmen visited Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with back pay, 2) furnished more than one clean shirt a week, 3) provided free war paint. Sent back to the show by Collier, the Sioux refused to perform...
Last pitched battle in the 300-year war between North American whites and Indians took place on Dec. 29, 1890 when the Seventh Cavalry massacred all but 46 of a force of 200 Sioux at Wounded Knee...
...traveling Episcopal bishop of Minnesota was a U. S. figure to be taken seriously: a man of affairs who exerted his influence from the poverty-stricken, remote frontier post of Faribault, Minn.; a missionary who was denounced by Senators and generals for his defense of the Indians after the Sioux Outbreak in 1862; an ecclesiastical leader who conferred with Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln, preached in most of the cathedrals of England and turned down the bishopric of the Sandwich Islands because he thought his work in Minnesota needed him more. Born in upper New York State in 1822, Whipple...
Leon H. Manheimer, Torrington, Connecticut; John R. McDaniel, Savannah, Missouri, Harold Bengloff, New York; Robert S. Hormell, Brunswick, Maine, Edward T. Haslam, Council Grove, Kansas; Lemuel Bowden, Jr., Norfolk, Virginia; John L. Wilson, Sturgis, Kentucky; Arthur L. Abrams, Roxbury; John Maier, Royersford, Pennsylvania; Edward S. Miller, Sioux City, Iowa; Sinclair T. Allen Jr., Proctor, Vermont; Earle H. Webster, Bridgewater...
...America, Inc. Sioux City, Iowa...