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...Saturday, December 18 THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A special celebrating the Great Plains and the Rockies, narrated by Robert Preston, Laraine Day and Mildred Dunnock; music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Rosebud Sioux Indians, who will sing their new tribal song, Seventy-Six Trombones...
Finally, on the seventh day, a bubble-nosed H13 Sioux helicopter fluttered close by. Braveboy unwrapped his hand and waved the bloody shirt for all he was worth. The chopper swung in overhead and dropped a cardboard box of C-rations. In it was turkey loaf, and only then did Braveboy realize that it was Thanksgiving...
...knows what the man who founded Duluth, Minn., in 1679 looked like. Archives reveal little more than that he was a French voyageur named Daniel Greysolon, bore the title of Sieur Du Luth, served as foot captain in the Royal Guard, and became a friend of the Sioux Indians. To give him more substance, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, 74, was asked to make a bronze of Du Luth. "Find a younger man," advised the sculptor...
...days the saloons will be bone dry unless a wagon train can get through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields her lady crusaders and Colonel Burt Lancaster must deploy more horse soldiers to keep the girls out of trouble...
Died. Simpson Mann, 98, oldest veteran of the Indian wars (1876-91), who joined the U.S. cavalry for "$12.50 a month, fat meat and six hardtacks a meal," fought Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux including the ugly 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, where some 300 Sioux men, women and children who had surrendered were suddenly slaughtered by jittery white troops; of heart disease; in Wadsworth, Kans...