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...Ticket to Tomahawk (20th Century-Fox) takes the makings of a western railroading epic and turns them into one of the season's brightest comedies. Filmed in the mountains of Colorado, but taking only the most mischievous view of what may actually have happened there in 1876, the Technicolored movie recounts the adventures of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler on its first run into the Rockies...
...fulfill its contract, the railroad must get a train into Tomahawk by an agreed deadline with at least one paying passenger on board. The run starts against some obstacles: hostile Indians, a stagecoach tycoon bent on thwarting the railroad, and the dispiriting fact that the road has run out of track in the 40-mile stretch between Epitaph and Dead Horse Point. With one reluctant paying passenger (Dan Dailey) firmly tied to the locomotive, a caravan headed by a sharpshooting lady peace officer (Anne Baxter) sets out to haul the engine by mule to the point where the track begins...
...Historian (California's Huntington Library) Cleland's story of the hundreds of other daredevil trappers who opened up the Southwest for U.S. expansion is a tribute to some of history's forgotten men. Equipped with half a dozen five-pound beaver traps, a rifle and a tomahawk, such buckskin-clothed trappers as Antoine Robidoux (who built the first trading post west of the Rockies' main range), Joseph Reddeford Walker (discoverer of Yosemite Valley) and Old Bill Williams stared down danger and brought a fortune in furs out of virgin streams. For most of them, the yearly...
...Gilcrease speaks with the doeskin softness of the Creek Nation, and only after ponderous buffalo-like reflection. He has no tomahawk to grind. Gilcrease says: "I just want to present the facts about the conquest of the West and the way the Indian was treated-just present it and then set people thinking about...
Midsummer Night's Dream. In Tomahawk, Wis., May June, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John July, was married to Mr. & Mrs. August Welke's son Frank...