Powder River saga frames three American epics of the West
Elmo Scott Watson reviews Struthers Burt’s Powder River Let ’er Buck, praising its portrait of Powder River country through Sioux, cowboy, and grazing-epics. The article details how the river’s fame grew from battles, cattle drives, and the rise of dude ranching, linking landscape to American identity and memory.
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Big Horn Mountains
Wyoming
Struthers Burt
Powder River
Buck
Ross Santee
Burt
Northwest
Texas
United States
France
East
Europe
South America
Orient
Mr. Burt
South
New England
Little Big Horn
North
South Dakota
Powder River Country
Mexico
Argentine
California
Johnson County
Finis
America
West
Powder River and the Far West Ghosts and Yarns
A survey of Powder River as a legendary figure and the Western mythos. The author cites Burt’s tribute to the land and recounts tales of brands, Jim Bridger, ghost stories on the Powder, Confederate veterans in Montana, Roosevelt’s Rough Riders anecdote, and a humorous anecdote about self argument.
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Powder River
Struthers Burt
Old Jim Bridger
Big Horn
Bridger
Pardner
Jim Bridger
Bozeman Trail
Carrington
Fort
Phil Kearney
Montana
Price
Texas
Mexico
Bozeman
West
Storm on the North Sea recalls Hank Cowden and the Stanley disaster
In spring 1896 Henry S. Cowden of Chicago serves as second mate aboard the four masted bark Stanley from Calcutta bound for Hamburg. A sudden gale and fog drive the ship ashore off Texel Island in the North Sea. 16 reach the rescue in a lifeboat, while Hank and others survive after distress rockets signal help. Hank quits the sea afterward as the crew mourns five hundred fishermen lost in the same storm.
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ELSO
Henry S. Cowden
Chicago
Adventure
Hank Cowden
Stanley
Liverpool
Calcutta
India
Hamburg
Germany
English Channel
Straits of Dover
North Sea
Hank
Texel Island
Mr. Steeves
Hercules
Amsterdam
Nieu Diep
Holland
Early soda water discovery and American creed excerpt
The piece traces European discovery of aerated water with Priestley in 1772 and commercialization by Schweppe and Paul in 1790, notes Dr. Philip S. Physick as introducing soda water to the United States, and cites the first fruit syrups with soda. It also presents a fragment of The American's Creed by William Tyler Page.
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Priestley
Paul
Geneva
Schweppe
London
Philip S. Physick
Philadelphia
United States
Townsend Speakman
Eugene Roussel
Elp
William Tyler
Page
United States of America
Uncle Phil 2 Says Time to Debunk
A compact note claims Uncle Phil 2 Says is focused on debunking a claim or myth. The item presents a brief stance without citing sources or specifics.
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