Word: wickiups
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...swept the gold towns, gamblers and prostitutes cleaned up, and children entertained themselves by re-enacting the latest lynching. Such a climate is perfectly suited to the talents of the two characters who dominate the book. Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners. On Wall Street meanwhile, his cousin Joshua Ching is even more brutal and even more successful...
...visited my father that day," his literally translated confession began. "He told me of dance and asked me get my wife Elizabeth. On way I bought 50? worth beer and drank a few times. Got Elizabeth. We both had horses. Reached my father's wickiup. Robert Gatewood [his brother-in-law] invited me in to drink. I drank some tulapai [aboriginal moonshine]. I rode past white girl's house. She stopped me and offered me a drink of water, then she spoke of dance. Asked me if I would lend her a horse. I said only...
...exposition at the Grand Central Art Galleries did not lack for potent sponsorship. Honorary chairman was none other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup. One vice president of the exposition is 78-year-old Major-General Hugh Lenox Scott, who in his youth did his bit toward helping the Vanishing American vanish. Other patrons include: Ambassador Dawes, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair). Mrs. Herbert Hoover lent...
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