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Died. Gordon William ("Pawnee Bill") Lillie, 81, long-haired frontiersman, Wild West showman; in Pawnee, Okla. Trapper and buffalo hunter, he was the last surviving leader of the "Boomers," homesteaders who rushed to settle the Indian Territory now Oklahoma...
Into a Hudson's Bay Co. Post where Great Whale River empties into the eastern waters of the Bay had trekked Trapper Ernest Riddell, the only white man on the Belcher Islands. To get there he had walked 60 miles over the ice to the main land...
...always logical. Most usual causes are shortages of wives or food. But the 200 families on the Belcher Islands have a tradition of murder. Their forebears were banished there from the mainland 50 years ago for massacring the white men at Great Whale River. But this murder, according to Trapper Riddell, was a matter of theology...
Once again the great Muni tears a page out of the history books and colors it up to a degree equalled only in Professor Merriman's Middle Ages. he gives us Pierre Radisson:wiry trapper with beady French eyes, teeth like Henry VIII and a goodly supply of Canadian-grown chin foliage. The plot is a confusing series of trips between the land of the beaver and the London lolly pops of the curt of Charles II-with enough of the former to make the show worthwhile. Hudson's Boy, John Sutton, finds Canada hard to handle, but Gene Tierney...
Wanted: A Stomach. More than 100 years ago, on Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, a doctor named William Beaumont tried in vain to close the wound of a Canadian trapper who had accidentally been shot in the stomach. The edges of the hole healed, and Alexis St. Martin, the trapper, was not uncomfortable; if he plugged the wound, he could eat. The failure of Dr. Beaumont to heal that wound made him one of the great figures in medical history. For, by putting a tube in the wound, he observed the movements of St. Martin's gut, discovered...