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...Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak. Paris-trained Miller's paintings of a fur trappers' rendezvous, done with blue-tinted mountains in the romantic manner of Delacroix, are the only surviving pictorial records of the mountain men's great annual blowouts of drinking, fighting, "squaw doin's" and trading. The Swiss painter Charles Bodmer, first artist to travel up the Missouri past the Yellowstone, included in his careful watercolors of the fierce Plains warriors, dramatic sketches of other tribesmen already demoralized and debauched by drink, decaying on the outskirts of the white...
...cook who was half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered a simple but tasty article called "squaw candy": a fillet of salmon dry-smoked over a low fire...
...hazy on the reason why. But they trusted their neighbor, who had set up all the arrangements: Editor John Chappie, 51, of the Ashland Daily Press (circ. 4,397), who idolizes Bertie McCormick as the world's foremost military expert and the "most courageous American alive." Explained one squaw: "We would do it for Chappie because he helped us Indians get on relief...
...good-will whoops. One by one, the Chippewas stomped and howled past him to bestow gifts - a buckskin vest and a beaded belt (which he put on), a huge bow and quiver of arrows (one got stuck in his headdress and had to be extricated by a helpful squaw), wild rice, maple syrup and cranberries ("to give nourishment to your body to carry on that great battle for justice...
...DeMille's 68 movies in the 36 years since he made the first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) have cost an approximate total of $33 million (not including advertising expenses). Thus far, the first 67 have grossed $562 million...