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...Digging a 9-ft. channel up the Mississippi River (prime "main trunk system") from the mouth of the Illinois to Minneapolis & St. Paul; reaching a 6-ft. channel into the wheat country as far as Sioux City, Iowa, along the Mississippi's tributary, the Missouri...
...Improving the existing intercoastal waterways, such as that which makes it possible to barge from Manhattan to Beaufort, N. C., without entering the ocean and that which traverses most of Florida's length. When the whole project is finished, barges may travel inland from Beaufort to Sioux City, a journey of nearly...
...thick black veil over the upper portion of his face through the eyeholes of which gleamed a pair of orbs of piercing intensity." Thrilling indeed to New Yorkers was it to follow the band of masked riders through the Black Hills, into stage coach holdups, battles with the Sioux, robberies, murders, escapes-always with dashing Deadwood Dick as the hero. Heard once more was Deadwood's "wild, sardonic, terrible bloodcurdling laugh-'Ha, Ha, Ha! Arrest Deadwood Dick! Isn't that rich!'" Also his ringing challenge, with the equally deadly Calamity Jane at his side...
...money lavished upon it by courageous amateurs. It is the work of William Douglas Burden and William C. Chanler, a young Harvard combination. From boyhood Burden has known the forests of Canada. The cast was recruited from the Ojibwas of upper Ontario, with old Chief Yellow Robe of the Sioux, who three years ago inducted Chief White Eagle Coolidge into that tribe, and who this spring died a city death of pneumonia (TIME, April 21), Princess Spotted Elk of the Penobscots, and young Chief Long Lance of the Blackfoot tribe, author, boxer, wrestler and onetime West Pointer, to play...
Aleek-chea-ahoosh's training as a warrior began when he was a few years old, for the Crows were surrounded with enemies: Sioux, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Piegans, Cheyennes, Shoshones, Flatheads, Gros Ventres. As a small boy his elders taught him how to steal meat from his own village, that later he might steal enemy horses, "count coup." "To count coup a warrior had to strike an armed and fighting enemy with his coupstick, quirt, or bow before otherwise harming him, or take his weapons while he was yet alive, or strike the first enemy falling in battle, no matter...