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...colonial century for its sharpest incidents, sharpened them still further with careful editing, and made of them a volume that brings the colonial century almost too keenly alive for some 20th Century tastes. The tales of Indian captivity, in particular, are about as easy to take as a tomahawk in the skull: babies bashed to death against trees, a prisoner ripped in half by the main force of some 20 of his captors, another with thumbs cut off and a sharp stake driven up his arm to the elbow; the torture of famed Jesuit Father Jogues, who was later massacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 5, 1950 | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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