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Always trying to settle down to peaceful pursuits, the boy took part in a drive of 3,000 longhorns over the famed Chisholm trail, caught measles on the way, killed an Indian and five Mexicans, afterwards wrote of one of the killings: "I was going to shoot him again when he begged and held up his hands. I could not shoot a man, even a treacherous Mexican, begging and down. Besides, I knew he would die anyway...
Travelogger Lowell Thomas: "The way is not broad, but it's long-(and it was more so 40 years ago)-from Peking through inner China, along the caravan trail of silk, past the Kunlung Mountains, Afghanistan, through Eastern Turkistan and the Khyber Pass and into India...
Such caution served only to increase Oregonians' respect for Chancellor Hunter's qualifications. Fervently they hoped that so impartial a referee might quell their dogfight, set the pack once more upon the trail of learning...
...Wanderer was his only book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night) and Andre Malraux (Man's Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath in the footsteps of Alain Fournier, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen. Critics will note a long gap between Author Francis...
...they each had about $15,000 worth of gold. Just as they were getting ready to leave, another U. S. prospector found their hidden camp, promised them all a fortune if they would stay on with him. They might have been tempted if bandits had not picked up their trail and given them a bad scare before the federal soldiers drove them...