Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan followed the lead of the Portland and Seattle Art Museums and the Detroit Institute in adding a Price to its collection.) It has led him down a long winding trail from his early days on the range...
With Ona help, he laid a trail across Fuego's biggest island and established a large sheep ranch in the heart of Ona territory. In his years of camping out with the Indians, he learned more about them than any other white man. The Ona way of life, says Bridges, was "communistic"; there were no chiefs. A man owned his wives (usually two, one much older than himself and one much younger), his weapons and his clothing; he spent his time hunting or feuding with other tribes while his women fished, cooked, reared the children. The Ona believed...
...before his death in 1949, he wrote his book. It contains many of the faults its author saw in his first draft, which "like the country of its origin, was criss-crossed by precipitous gullies interspersed with tangled thickets and bogs." But readers who follow daredevil Author Bridges' trail will hardly care to complain about a few irregularities in the terrain...