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...between the Mississippi and the Pacific, especially in the Northwest, where he laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge where, after visits to the camps of treacherous Blackfeet Indians, Mr. Stevens learned that below the ridge was a secret pass which the Indians said was haunted. Mr. Stevens found the pass alone, but lost his homeward way when night fell. Munching a frozen biscuit, gnawing a strip of raw pork, Mr. Stevens paced all night, dreaming "exactly...
...Buffalo nickel giving vent to a sudden mood of loquacity which had come over him at the sight of Secretary of the Interior Hubert S. Work. They were met in Lawrence, Kan., last week, where the loquacious Chief Two Guns White Calf had led 26 of his Blackfeet tribesmen from Montana for a polytribal "powwow" at famed Haskell Institute, which had a new football stadium to dedicate.† Secretary Work conversed briefly with Mr. White Calf, then went along to lecture to the students of the University of Kansas, on Mount Oread, overlooking the town...
...following is a sample of how they do things in Manitoba: "A ten mile race was run here yesterday by George Irvine and Little Plum, son of the Chief of the Blackfeet. A number of fouls occurred, and finally Irvine knocked the Indian down, and severely injured him by stamping on his wrist with spiked shoes. Nevertheless, the Indian regained his feet and pluckily renewed the race, winning by five yards in fifty-five minutes...