Word: wagoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Understood to have Republican leanings, the group did not see eye to eye with the Democratic administration's plan of sending a commemorative pioneer wagon from Ipswich, Massachusetts, to Marietta, Ohio. "If the pioneers should be commemorated," said Chief Bull, "so should us Indians...
...night of Sept. 6, 1901, Vallely was called from his office to the Temple of Music where President McKinley had just been shot. He found a furious mob trying to get at Assassin Leon Czolgosz, who had been seized and put in a back room. Vallely ordered a patrol wagon sent to the building's back entrance. While the mob surged around it, Vallely sneaked Czolgosz out the front, took him to jail in the President's carriage...
...Star Wagon, by Maxwell Anderson (who improvises on his own Hammond, and whose sons discovered that its electrical impulses can produce a sound like a blow-out), was not affected, since the Empire Theatre already has a small orchestra. But Many Mansions, which opened last fortnight, felt the full weight of the union's hand. Besides paying a Hammondist $200 a week, its management had to hire three musicians at union scale ($100 a week for the leader. $75 for others). Since no one wanted them to play, the three last week watched the show every night, prepared...
...link in a highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped from Tulainyo was carried through 150 miles of cheers, bands and barbecues, first by Indian runner, then in succession by pony express, prairie schooner, pack burro, 20-mule team wagon, stage coach, locomotive, automobile. After a three-day trip the gourd was emptied from a swooping airplane into Bad Water, a brackish pool at Death Valley's lowest point. The fiesta was called the "Wedding of the Waters." Local citizenry hoped its offspring would be tourists...
...Vaal Rivers into the then unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon trains for safety's sake and driving their cattle before them, the emigrants swarmed in-in such numbers that by 1852 more than 40,000 voortrekkers had made the journey, resettled themselves on the new lands. It is the adventures of such a wagon train that Author Cloete (pronounced "Clooty...