Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose intrinsic shapelessness is a true reflection of the style of nightshirt in which they have to sleep. For women it consists of coarse cotton mother hubbards, black cotton stockings, shoes like the men's, floppy sunbonnets. To both sexes the official dress gives an air of covered wagon days, and to the city's present 3,175 old paupers, who daily look across from their island homes to the skyscrapers of Manhattan, it is a sore trial...
...industrial Revolution inspired cordwaining Chamberlains to leave London and leather, start making screws in Birmingham in the Midlands, which was for them like having taken a Covered Wagon in dangerous search of Opportunity. In 1854, at the age of 18, the present Prime Minister's father Joseph Chamberlain moved from London to Birmingham to represent the family's new business interests there and before he was half through his bold career he had made Birmingham what civic experts now recognize as "the first great municipality with an integrated and fully modern government...
...from the Gold Rush on, photographers went along with the pioneers, the troops, the railroads. A disheartening revelation of the Taft book is how much of their unpretentious but now invaluable work has been carelessly lost; almost as great a revelation is the amount that survives. Samples : a covered-wagon caravan forming a wide circle for the night; the U. S. mail-coach with riflemen atop it, leaving muddy Salt Lake City...
...first long years that are hardest on the pioneers, easiest on the reader. Reversing this order is First the Blade, a 631-page novel of the "Sandlappers" who settled California's semi-arid San Joaquin Valley. For the first 150 pages, which move as slowly as a covered wagon slogging over the plains, it is the reader who suffers most. This beginning goes way back to the heroine's girlhood in Missouri; and although the Civil War figures in her adolescence, the only valid purpose in these tedious chapters is to let the heroine reach a marriageable...
Harvey Scott came across the plains in his father's covered wagon from Illinois when he was 14, saw his mother die of plains cholera on the way, helped to bury her beside the trail. He carried a musket in the local Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned...