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Two "Old" Soldiers Speak

2012-01-07T14:17:00.007-05:00

"Hard not to see this coming" and "Here we go again":

I know I said I wouldn't be posting. I lied. Coming on the heels my last post I just couldn't resist giving as much exposure to the following two opinions that are rooted in historical-mindedness and reasoned dissent.

I want my grand-sons to someday be able to read this blog post for themselves in answer to the questions they may have of "why" and "how" did this happen:

Forgetting The Lessons Of History, By Robert H. Scales
The Washington Post, January 6, 2012

Here we go again. President Obama made the same mistake Thursday in announcing his new military strategy that virtually all of his predecessors have made since the end of World War II. He said:

"Moreover, we have to remember the lessons of history. We cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past - after World War II, after Vietnam - when our military was left ill-prepared for the future. As commander in chief, I will not let that happen again. Not on my watch."

Unfortunately, Obama's plan does exactly that. It forgets the lessons of history. Some facts: Harry Truman seeking to never repeat the costs of World War II reduced the Army from 8 million soldiers to fewer than half a million.
Without the intervention of Congress, he would have eliminated the Marine Corps entirely. The result was the evisceration of both land services in Korea, a war Truman never intended to fight.

With Dwight Eisenhower came the "New Look" strategy that sought to reduce the Army and Marine Corps again to allow the creation of a nuclear delivery force built around the Strategic Air Command. Along came Vietnam, a war that Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson never wanted to fight. But by 1970
our professional Army broke apart and was replaced by a body of amateurs. The result was defeat and 58,000 dead.

After Vietnam, the Nixon administration broke the Army again. I know. I was there to see the drug addiction, murders in the barracks and chronic indiscipline, caused mainly by a dispirited noncommissioned corps that voted with its feet and left. Then came Jimmy Carter's unique form of neglect that led to the "hollow Army" of the late '70s, an Army that failed so miserably in its attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran.

The only exception to this very sad story was the Reagan years, when the land services received enough funding to equip and train themselves to fight so well in Operation Desert Storm. Then tragedy again as the Clinton administration reduced the ground services, intending to rely on "transformation," a program that paid for more ships and planes by reducing the Army from 16 divisions to 10. In the George W. Bush administration, Donald Rumsfeld continued a policy that sought to exploit information technology to
replace the human component in war. Had it not been for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Army would have gone down to fewer than eight divisions.

So, here we go again. The Obama administration will reduce its long-service, professional land force to pay for something called "Air Sea Battle," a strategy that seeks to buy more ships and planes in order to confront China with technology rather than people. This strategy shows a degree of a-historicism that exceeds that of any post-World War II administration. So much for remembering "the lessons of the past."

Here's what the lessons of the past 70 years really teach us: We cannot pick our enemies; our enemies will pick us. They will, as they have always done in the past, cede to us dominance in the air, on sea and in space because they do not have the ability to fight us there. Our enemies have observed us closely in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they have learned the lessons taught by Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Saddam Hussein: America's greatest vulnerability is dead Americans. So our future enemy will seek to fight us on the ground, where we have traditionally been poorly prepared. His objective will be to win by not losing, to kill as an end rather than as a means to an end. And we will enter the next war again tragically short of the precious resource that we have neglected for six administrations: our soldiers and Marines. Pg. 15

The writer, a retired Army major general, is a former commandant of the U.S.Army War College.

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Gutting Defense: Obama's lame claims that we're safer, By James Jay Carafano
New York Post, January 6, 2012

Hard not to see this one coming. President Obama orders about half-a-trillion dollars in defense cuts, and then asks for a strategic "review" - which, surprise, tells us that the Pentagon didn't need that money after all, and the White House now has a strategy that will keep us safe without it.

Why exactly will we be able to get by with a smaller and less capable military than we had when Obama came into office? Because, the president told us yesterday, he has made the world safer for America.

Unfortunately for the White House, the evidence Obama presented for this claim was laughable.

He cited operations in Iraq, for one. Bad example: Thanks to the imprudent total withdrawal of US forces, the fragile coalition trying to hold that country together may now fall apart - squandering a decade of effort to make the Middle East less of a threat to US interests.

Meanwhile, the coming US pullout from Afghanistan is rapidly looking like a replay of the Paris Peace Talks - the negotiations that set the stage for the collapse of South Vietnam. Apparently, all the president wants is for there to be enough of an interval after we leave that he'll be able to argue that the next collapse into an orgy of violence and terrorism wasn't his fault.

He also trotted out the killing of Osama bin Laden - who even before Obama took office had been reduced to al Qaeda's propagandist-in-chief. Are we to believe that half-a-trillion in defense dollars went to getting al Qaeda's chief speechwriter?

The president makes all these comments with a straight face, even as Iran taunts the US over its withdrawal from the Middle East and the US Navy goes apoplectic over the rise of China's regional power. Meanwhile, the world's most inexperienced and unpredictable leader has his finger on North Korea's nuclear trigger.

Not only is the world not a safer place than when Obama came into office, the strategy his Pentagon has produced to deal with today's challenges may well make it far worse.

Let me translate the Pentagon report into English: The administration is going to gut the Army and Marine Corps, while hitting the Navy and Air Force less (for now). The "strategy" basically says, We have a four-legged stool; we're going to cut off two legs.

There's conclusive proof that all this is purely budget-driven: the president's own Quadrennial Defense Review. In that report to Congress the Pentagon must, by law, outline the nation's long-term needs. The last review, not two years old, laid out a much more robust force. What's changed?

When the president presented that report to Congress, he knew he wanted to be out of Iraq by 2011 and out of Afghanistan by 2014. He knew China was rising and that Iran and North Korea were a problem. The only thing he didn't know was the Arab Spring would erupt - and that so far appears to have left the world more troubled, not less.

It is completely unreasonable for the White House to argue the world has changed so much that we can just do all this with less.

What makes the president's strategy look even more ridiculous is that it doesn't even account for all the cuts envisioned under recent law: Defense may well still lose another half-trillion dollars. Even the Pentagon acknowledges that the new "strategy" is worthless if those reductions go into effect.

Since Obama has promised to veto any legislation that would exempt the armed forces from the threatened "contingency" cuts, that means this strategy isn't even worth the paper it's written on. It's little more than a gimmick to hide (at least until Election Day) the fact that Defense is being slammed.

The president declares this move to be the ultimate expression of "smart" power. Hmm: Smart, strategy and stupid all begin with "S"; looks like the White House confused one word for the other.

Or maybe hopes the American people are stupid. Why else think a document thick with Pentagon-speak can hide the fact our armed forces will soon be able do a lot less to provide for the common defense? pg. 27

James Jay Carafano is a defense expert at The Heritage Foundation.

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And Now for Something Completely Different (NOT) - just less well said than above

One might wonder what was going on in the minds of the Chairman and service chiefs as they stood blank-faced, if not, grim-faced behind the President. I know I did. While I once served on the same post with a couple of those fellows, I must say I have no clue what they think at this stage or where they really stand on these issues of major defense cuts. I can guess. I discount their public statements as a general rule. Having made it to the top by being the good soldiers, marines and sailors they are savvy get-alongs - plus they need to spin this thing gingerly without crushing service morale or to send a wrong signal to would be adversaries. One can only wonder too at the content, tone and tenor of their private counsel to their elected civilian leadership. Given the general nature of the announcement, I suspect the Navy and Air Force chiefs were inwardly more optimistic (and relived), than their Army and Marine counterparts that their counsel had been heeded to some degree. If pessimistic or negative, we will not know for sometime how they really felt or what counsel they gave if it was not in line with the administrations thinking, unless they want to run the risk of being sacked. Likely, to a man, even if they do personally dissent, they feel that they can better serve their respective service by "managing" the cuts they oppose, and thus their nation, by remaining, rather than breaking ranks and squandering what they spent the better part of their careers aiming for and acquiring. I don't envy them; nor do I expect more from them even if they do personally dissent from the pronounced way ahead (my study of Korea and Vietnam and my own military experience has taught me that). In reality, most of them are confronting these macro-issues, as key players and decision-makers, for the first time in their careers (only the Air Force Chief has been in his position for some time). They may even believe they can make do with less. For better or worse they are the ultimate deciders in a military profession and culture that, while seeking to promote itself as a meritocracy, more closely resembles the self-perpetuating bureaucracy found in corporate America but with an internal and external political correctness dynamic all its own.

The above testimonies are from two old soldiers (one a former school mate) without a "dog in the fight," other than their earnest, patriotic and experiential-based desire to see America adequately and properly defended but also, as old soldiers, mainly concerned with the welfare and prospects of survival for our soldiers and marines on some future unpredicted battlefield.
Their warnings will, no doubt, go unheeded by the greater public (even mocked by some as unnecessarily right-wing, militant and dooming). This is also the proven American way - politics and politicians trump all comers and worst-case arguments. Political games are being played at the expense of the American soldier in the name of unsustainable entitlements and spending on the military. Oh really? Even though we spend less of our Gross Domestic Product on defense than in the past; almost half of what we spent in the 80s and almost three times less than what we spent during the Cold War 60s - and even though similar civilian entitlements are also unsustainable - we find new room for even more (Obama care) and no headway on the sacrosanct and untouchable pillars of our entitlement system.
Do I support no cuts for all defense...on the contrary, we all know there is enough fat, waste, fraud, abuse and spending on and by the military that they don't even want, to consider first before eliminating the marrow of our ground forces.

The risks will now be run - despite the pleadings - of needless sacrifices and grievous losses to be incurred on some distant battlefield in an unsought war it was not manned or equipped to sustain over the long haul. Unable to prevail without resort to undue, inefficient waste in men, material and resources and perhaps including a return to that nightmare of the baby boomer's past - a Draft - an arguably cheaper, but at least quantitative solution to our ground problem, if properly and equitably administered unlike before - yet a political pariah no one seriously discusses (what about a bold "National Service Training" - Federal and State, Civil and Military, by a candidate?) Today's professional high-tech military opposes this for a host of internal and external factors but it once provided the largest and greatest combat-tested Army ever fielded against two major and one minor foes.
Indeed, because of this traditional and misguided American Way of War, we again encourage and invite such an outcome.

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Story of an Old Army and Challenges for the Future

2011-12-26T14:34:00.008-05:00

This will be my last post for 2011 and perhaps for some time to come....new duties have lessened my desire for reflective time on the computer...

My initial impulse for this post was to take a look back at a similar period of post-war defense cuts and their impact on the Army's capacity to meet the nation's strategic objectives....expected or unexpected.

Each winter, I choose to re-read Clay Blair's compelling, The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953, in honor of my late father, and in order to maintain historical perspective and to "buck-up" during what I consider a "gloom period." I can imagine no worse combined conditions of winter weather and desperate combat that our soldiers and marines faced than that experienced during the winter of 1950-51...excluding actions on the Eastern Front or during the Battle of the Bulge (19,000 Americans killed, 89,500 casualties) in World War II.

Through Blair, one is immediately struck by the obvious parallels between the pre-Korean War Army and today's soon to be dwindled ground force...e.g. only two line battalions in the infantry regiments then and as currently in our BCTs (albeit soon to be rectified I have read)...pronouncements on when, where and how to fight, or the likelihood of other limited conventionally waged wars for the foreseeable future, ...

In a recent re-reading of another book from my library, the commonly held opinion of the pre-Korean War Army was re-inforced for me as follows:
"Most historians of the period agree that the U.S force that met the Communist threat in Korea was the worst trained, worst equipped American Army of modern times. The first forces to meet the North Korean advance had never expected to be locked in sudden desperate combat in a treeless mountainous country unsuited to American mobility." p.335 - Paratrooper: the life of Gen. James M. Gavin, Thomas Michael Booth, Duncan Spencer, Simon & Schuster, Apr 25, 1994

With this in mind, along with the nature of defense cuts looming, I was prepared to "go to press" and draw seemingly suitable analogies...BUT

Fortunately for me, in assembling press articles to formulate my arguments, and in seeking any online recent scholarship or mention on the 1948-1950 period, my pseudo-understanding was challenged by a 2006 online dissertation from Ohio State, entitled America's First Cold War Army: Combat Readiness in the Eighth U.S. Army 1949-1950, 2006, authored by then Major (now Colonel) Thomas Hanson, which subsequently led to a book in 2010, Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series).

The article and the book persuasively argue against the "generalizations historians and fellow soldiers have used" and which at their worst have perpetrated; "...what Douglas MacArthur called the “pernicious myth” of professional, physical and moral ineffectiveness that has heretofore prevented an honest discussion of Eighth Army’s capabilities and limitations on the eve of war in 1950." (p. iii)

Hanson seeks to restore "justice to the tens of thousands of soldiers who worked to make themselves and their army ready for war." (p. ii) and to "....redress the imbalance that exists between fact and interpretation."(p.5)

Several facts and questions (i.e. reliance on Blair, T.J. Fehrenbach's, and official Army interpretations (Appleman)) about this period also struck me as overlooked, yet pertinent and illuminating insofar as our Army prepares for, and is able to manage, pending reductions that will result in the smallest force fielded since before WWII.

Hanson sets me straight. Quoting liberally from him, including key footnotes, reveals the inherent bias in these primary and secondary sources:

"In the absence of a vigorous debate on the subject, novelist and Korea veteran T.R. Fehrenbach’s 1963 book This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness established in the minds of two generations the impression that the Army of 1950 “couldn’t fight its way out of a wet paper bag” and survived only through the efforts of the U.S. Marine Corps. Fehrenbach’s dismal portrayal of the Army’s performance in 1950 as an unbroken series of failures and sweeping generalizations about undermanned, ill-trained, poorly equipped, and indifferently led units eliminated the distinctions between tactical failures by soldiers and officers in the field and operational and strategic blunders committed by those serving at theater level and higher. Notwithstanding this distortion, Fehrenbach’s became and remains the standard interpretation of the Eighth Army’s performance in 1950.30
The Army acceded to Fehrenbach’s assessment because it had already embarked upon its own campaign of self-flagellation in 1961 with the publication of Roy E. Appleman’s South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu, the initial volume of the official Army history. Appleman, an Army field historian in Korea, believed that there was “no reason to suppose that any of the other three occupation divisions in Japan would have done any better than did the U.S. 24th Division in July 1950” because in his view “they showed the same weaknesses”—without his having conducted more than superficial research into the training background or level of preparation of any unit.31 Similarly, Army reviewer Colonel Charles W. McCarthy found Fehrenbach’s work “full of lessons for all ranks and ages; full of examples, both good and bad, which should be emulated or avoided.”32 However, McCarthy could only point to examples of tactical or strategic decisions, not to any successes or failures in the preparation of a unit for war, because neither Fehrenbach nor Appleman before him had bothered to research that aspect of the issue.33"

"30...Fehrenbach arrived in Korea in 1952..."
31 Appleman, South to the Naktong, 180. Nothing found in the Appleman Collection at the U.S. Army Military History Institute indicates that he relied on more than hearsay to determine the training status of the units he described.
32 “Lessons For All Ranks,” Army 14, 2 (September, 1963), 82.
"33 Fehrenbach himself stated that his principal source material for This Kind of War came from stories he heard in 1952 and 1953, by which time everyone involved in the 1950 campaigns would have left Korea. Appleman’s three subsequent books on the Chosin Reservoir campaign, Disaster in Korea:The Chinese Confront MacArthur (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989), Escaping the Trap: X Corps in Korea (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990), and East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993) all painted a poor picture of Army leadership at the regimental, division and corps level, further eroding the Army’s credibility."...

Subsequent authors amplified Fehrenbach’s arguments in their own publications. Russell F. Weigley argued in 1967 that despite the Army’s status in 1950 as a “postwar force” shaped by the experience of the last war and quite unprepared doctrinally to fight a limited war, battlefield failure in 1950 resulted from “faulty execution by troops who were too lightly trained, too loosely disciplined, and too lacking in motivation to match the determination of the enemy.” In effect, Weigley synthesized This Kind of War and Eugene Kinkead’s In Every War But One. Two decades after Weigley, Clay Blair’s more balanced work The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953 laid some of the blame on the senior leadership in the Eighth Army for painting too optimistic a picture of training and readiness, but reserved most of the fault for the Truman Administration. In Blair’s view, Truman and Johnson “had all but wrecked the conventional forces of the United States” by forcing economies onto the service that prevented any realistic readiness. In particular, Blair faulted Johnson’s stringency for producing untrained soldiers (the product of a basic training system shrunk from 17 weeks to eight) and junior leaders (lieutenants commissioned in 1950 reported immediately to their units because no funding existed for branch training), and to enlisted pay so miserly that the Army was forced to accept draftees who made “disgruntled, indifferent or even hostile soldiers.” Blair’s analysis ignored the fact that by 1950 over 99 percent of first-term enlisted soldiers were volunteers, not draftees.34 Blair also overlooked the fact that the decision to close the Army’s Ground General School and branch basic officer courses came from the Army itself, not the Truman Administration, and only indirectly resulted from fiscal concerns.35. [Clay Blair, The Forgotten War, 28-29] (pp.12-14)

"During the early 1948 crisis period the Army received authorization to expand over the course of Fiscal Year 1949 to 900,000 soldiers. Army Field Forces opened two additional training centers in order to train the anticipated 300,000 recruits needed. Less than a year later these two installations were closed down when the Truman Administration imposed severe austerity measures on the Department of Defense for the remainder of FY 1949 and for its upcoming appropriation for FY 1950. Already exceeding the revised 1949 authorization of 677,000, the Army was forced to halt draft inductions completely and impose quotas on new enlistments and reenlistments, virtually shutting off the flow of replacements (trained or otherwise) from the ZI to the Occupation commands.69 (69 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Army for Fiscal Year 1949, 138-140.) (p. 41)

"The volatility of the personnel situation would plague Eighth Army throughout its quest to transform itself from an occupying “stability” force to a trained and effective combined-arms organization. One significant benefit, however, was that, Army-wide, by the end of 1949 fewer than one percent of enlisted soldiers were draftees, a situation that persisted until the outbreak of war in Korea. For this reason commanders could at least leverage the voluntarism and cooperative spirit of their soldiers without worrying about the adulterating effects of cynical draftees on unit morale.70" (70 William M. Donnelly, “The Best Army That Can Be Put In The Field In the Circumstances: The U.S. Army, July 1951-July 1953,” unpublished paper produced for the U.S. Army Center of Military History, 9; copy in author’s possession.) (pp. 41-42)

"The personnel turbulence in the Army between 1945 and 1949, the dramatic downward trend in the average age of soldiers following World War II, and the inability of the Army’s training base to sustain even a minimally competent replacement pool resulted from problems beyond the Army’s ability to control. In the immediate postwar period political expediency trumped rationality in the demobilization of the Army. No consensus existed on the size of the future Regular Army establishment within the Defense Department, let alone between the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government...."(pp. 45-46)

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Now, obviously, the professional dedication, devotion and resource commitment to continued realistic combat training (hopefully of the right mix - conventional and irregular) will not be degraded by these coming cuts....BUT....... if "severe austerity measures" and cuts to the incentives needed to maintain a Volunteer force including short-sighted policies towards retirement and benefits...may make the +500K level sought (inadequate in my view) not only problematical but dangerously inadeqaute...especially if the economy ever rebounds and volunteerism and quality intake declines.

A look back at the recruiting advertisements which resulted in 99% volunteers of first-term enlisted soldiers for an authorized 900,000-man Army, just prior to June 1950, comes to mind

The following full page ads appeared in LIFE magazine in 1949 and early 1950...

Hanson adds needed context to the above: "The Army’s own research showed that fewer than 20% of non-veteran volunteers named “travel, adventure, or new experiences” as their primary motivation for enlisting in the late 1940s. 30% named the opportunity for vocational experience as the dominant factor...Veterans overwhelmingly attributed their return to the Army to a desire for economic and employment security. Data from Major Paul D. Guernsey, “New Army, New Soldiers,” Army Information Digest 3, 5 (May, 1948)," (pp. 26-30)

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Summing up, 1949-1950:
Quoting liberally from Hanson on the maligned Eighth Army and lessons learned/unlearned since 1950:

"Acknowledgement of the Eighth Army’s accomplishments in 1949 and early 1950 should facilitate a shift in the debate away from the lack of preparedness of “Occupation troops” and back onto a discussion of policy decisions made by the Truman Administration in the wake of World War II. These decisions required a much larger military than the President was willing to support. In another time and under other circumstances, an Army Chief of Staff warned of the dangers of embracing “a twelve-division strategy with a ten-division Army.” (p.iii)

"Historians and soldiers have not been kind to either MacArthur or to the soldiers whom he placed in harm’s way in the summer of 1950. The circumstances of MacArthur’s relief in April, 1951, have colored all subsequent interpretations of his actions during the Korean War. Post-1975 revolutions in Army training methods have led professional soldiers to condemn the Army of 1950 for tolerating a crisis of “institutional environment and values.”7 Such arguments fail to account for many mitigating factors, however, and merely add to the insults heaped on the men of the Eighth Army. Instead of lauding the significant operational advantages gained by Task Force Smith’s delaying action, standard interpretations portray that unit as the epitome of unreadiness. Indeed, as early as July 24, 1950, the editors of Life blamed the soldiers of the Eighth Army generally for failing to emulate the example of their World War II forbearers, beginning an historiographic trend that continues to this day.8...This study seeks to redress the imbalance that exists between fact and interpretation. For too long historians and soldiers have roundly criticized Task Force Smith’s performance, extrapolated from that an assumption that all other units were identically situated, and then used that interpretation to condemn the entire Eighth Army. The reality is much more complex. A proper examination of the historical record reveals wide disparities in the readiness and combat effectiveness of the subordinate units of America’s first forward-deployed Cold War field force. To gain a comprehensive understanding one must consider contemporary doctrine and expectations, the documented state of training in the Eighth Army, and the testimony of officers, noncommissioned officers, and soldiers who actually served in Japan in 1949 and early 1950. [and not by those who "heard stories" - or benefited at the expense of soldiers - many of whom did not survive to rebut the stereotyping by others.] No longer should the reputation of the Eighth Army rest on the one-legged stool of hindsight critiques based on doctrine and performance measures developed two decades after the Korean War. Certainly the Army of 1950 labored under significant constraints that proved difficult to overcome in the immediate aftermath of the North Korean invasion. Contrary to the prevailing view, however, enough Army units in 1950 possessed a high enough degree of combat readiness to salvage a very precarious operational and strategic situation. This paper will demonstrate how units achieved that readiness by means of case studies of four infantry regiments, one regiment from each of the four infantry divisions that constituted the Eighth Army in 1950. Its synthesis of contemporary training doctrine, training records generated by maneuver units, unit histories, reports of inspections by outside agencies, contemporary self-assessments, and the observations of veterans who served in Japan in the 15 months prior to the outbreak of the Korean War challenges the long-standing reputation of the Eighth Army as flabby, dispirited, and weak. The records of each of these regiments in combat in Korea during the first weeks of war reflect the uneven progress toward combat effectiveness that each of the four divisions made. Nevertheless, enough evidence exists to conclude that successful infantry regiments in Korea owed their success not to luck but to hard training,and that the Eighth Army’s April 1949 training program represented not just a rhetorical shift but a fundamental reordering of priorities within the Far East Command." (pp. 3-6)

"The growing tensions arising from the Cold War demanded that what limited military capability the U.S. possessed must be devoted to defense and security. Hence OCAFF’s exhortation in 1949 that “every soldier, regardless of assignment, has as his primary duty the obligation to fight or support the fight.” A similar debate occurred in the U.S. Army in the mid-1990s as the Bush and Clinton Administrations committed U.S. forces to stability operations on an unprecedented scale. The decision and justification for it remained unchanged from 1950: despite the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the strategic threats arrayed against the U.S. and its allies precluded the reorganization of the 10th Mountain Division as a constabulary force....Americans do not like to prepare for war. They have only grudgingly come to accept a large standing army and huge fiscal authorizations given to the Defense Department as a result of experience in the Cold War and especially since the attacks of September 11, 2001. That many in both Congress and the Bush Administration could, as late as the summer of 2001, contemplate a reduction of the Regular Army from ten to eight divisions, indicates that the lessons that should have been learned in the summer of 1950 have yet to sink in. National security will always entail domestic political tradeoffs, but these should never occur at the expense of the soldiers whom the nation sends into harm’s way as a result of national policy." (pp. 193-195)

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Flash Forward:

"So it is gone, over the last 9 years of doing irregular warfare we have eviscerated the Armor Corps to the point of its extinction. Maybe the cost was worth it and maybe it doesn’t matter if the visionaries of the future are right when they tell us not to worry about combined arms competencies since those kinds of things are easy and what the American Army really needs to get to—a higher form of war and conflict as it is often implied—is “whole of government approach.” The Death of the Armor Corps - Colonel Gian P. Gentile, April, 17, 2010
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-death-of-the-armor-corps

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“In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it.” — Defense Secretary Robert Gates, West Point NY, 25 February 2011

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Robert Gates' Message On Strategic Thinking
Bernard Gwertzman|March 02, 2011

Interviewee: Colonel Gian Gentile, USA, Visiting Fellow
Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR.org

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently told West Point cadets that any future defense secretary advising a U.S. president to send a large land army into Asia, the Middle East or Africa, "should have his head examined," quoting General Douglas MacArthur's reported advice to President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Gates was stressing the need for strong strategic over tactical thinking, says Col. Gian Gentile, a West Point military historian, who notes that some have criticized the military for being too preoccupied with counterinsurgency tactics and nation building and insufficiently focused on strategy. "If you get the strategy right the tactics will fall into place," says Gentile.
That means an army "premised on fire power, protection, and mobility, and not one that is optimized mostly for small wars, for training local indigenous forces, and those kind of things," says Gentile. The winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will free the military to focus on building a range of competencies, he says.
One kind of potential conflict the U.S. military needs to prepare for, says Gentile, is a collapsed North Korea and a "messy occupation by South Korea" that would necessitate U.S. assistance.

Gates's speech has been interpreted by some as suggesting that the United States made a mistake sending large numbers of troops into Iraq and Afghanistan. What is your analysis? [italics are mine]
The secretary is suggesting that, if a future secretary of defense advises an American president to send a significant land force into a foreign country to do nation building, the analysis has to show that that kind of effort, that kind of endeavor, is worth the costs. This is the essence of strategy. He's saying that if you are going to do something like this, it darn sure better be worth the costs, because it will be a costly and long-term endeavor.
He also seemed to be upset that there has been so much redeployment of the same troops and that the army just doesn't have the ability to keep doing this.
There is plenty of evidence that the U.S. Army after more than nine years in Afghanistan and eight years in Iraq is wearing down. He did say that now with the winding down of Iraq and Afghanistan one benefit is going to be that the army will be able to focus on a range of operational competencies and not just on small wars and skirmishes.
When the Afghan war started back in 2001 in the aftermath of 9/11, the initial U.S. forces there were quite small.
Special Forces, a couple of battalions, and the 101st Airborne.
That would have fit Gates formula. How did we get to the current 100,000 in Afghanistan?
Here again, I'll go to this question about strategy. Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese author of "The Art of War" has this classic formulation on the relationship between tactics and strategy. He said, "strategy without tactics is a slow road to victory, but tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." The point is really a simple but profound one. If you are going to do one thing right in war throughout, it should be strategy. If you get the strategy right, the tactics will fall into place. One can make the argument over the last eight or nine years the American military, especially the American army, has become consumed with its tactical operational framework of counterinsurgency and nation building, which has perhaps eclipsed better strategic thinking.
Would a proponent of counterterrorism be annoyed at Gates's remarks?
In the American army, we have a force that can do that and is trying to do that. That's the army's Special Forces. This is where the secretary's speech was hedging and very careful. I think there is a role for an army that is premised on fire power, protection, and mobility, and not one that is optimized mostly for small wars, for training local indigenous forces, and those kind of things.
Gates cited the career of Russell Volckmann, class of West Point 1934, who, at the outbreak of World War II, was attached to the Philippine army, went into the bushes with the Philippines after the Japanese occupation, and ended up with a guerilla force of over 22,000 men.
He's the original Green Beret. It wasn't just Volckmann in the Philippines. The army was doing this with Special Services forces that went into France to help the French resistance deal with the Germans.
Do they still wear the green berets?
Yes, the Special Forces still wear the green beret. In the army right now, our standard headgear is the black beret. The Rangers wear the tan-beige berets. If I was writing the secretary's speech, especially thinking about what kind of capabilities and competencies the American army needs for the present and the future, I would have suggested other military figures than Volckmann. I would have perhaps cited World War II outstanding leaders, General George S. Patton or a General Joseph L. (Lightning Joe) Collins. [Or], if we are looking for historical figures, General Matthew Ridgeway, who turned the Korean War around. All three of those figures, in order to be successful, had to develop combined-arms competencies within themselves and within their organizations, whether it's tactical or operational or even strategic. For an army to do the wide range of missions that our army is certainly going to have to do in the future, I would much rather have an army built on combined-arms competencies rather than an army that is optimized and focuses itself on small wars [and] training indigenous forces
You mentioned Patton. When I think of Patton, I think of marching big tank armies into Germany at rapid speed, which seems to be counter to what Gates is talking about.
The secretary did point out that the army needs to be a learning and adapting organization. It needs to have leaders who can adjust and adapt to all kinds of situations. He did acknowledge the need for the army to maintain its combined arms competencies. He noted the importance of mechanized forces. He used the recent examples of Fallujah and Sadr City in Iraq. My point is that if you want an army that can do a wide range of missions and operations, you need an army that can do combined arms. It's premised on firepower protection and mobility. If you can do those things, then you can do the kinds of missions Volckmann did in the Philippines. If we build an army largely focused on training indigenous forces and small wars, and if it has to go fight somewhere else, that kind of army might run into problems.
You didn't see this speech as saying it was a mistake getting into Afghanistan and Iraq?
Certainly his remarks could be interpreted as a repudiation of any future secretary of defense that advises his president to do another Iraq or Afghanistan, but he didn't explicitly say those wars were a mistake.
He didn't mention President George W. Bush's decision to attack Iraq. I suspect the Iraq War will be debated for many years.
Of course it will. The war's not over yet. Some people think it is. Some people have proclaimed that the United States has achieved victory there. [But]There are still bombs going off routinely.
The other striking developments are these tectonic shifts in the Middle East. They are just breathtaking. It seems to me that that is the real significant development in the Middle East. When we look back on this period thirty to forty years from now, it's not going to be al-Qaeda, it's going to be these things that we are witnessing right now.
It'll be interesting to see how al-Qaeda comes out of all of this.
Many analysts have been caught offguard. This is not the kind of change in these countries that they saw happening. They didn't foresee any of these mass democratic movements, but instead thought change would occur through violence and terror.
Gates did say in the speech that virtually every recent military involvement was unpredicted beforehand. He said "when it comes to predicting the nature and location of our next military engagements, since Vietnam, our record has been perfect. We have never gotten it right."
This is where, if I had written the secretary's speech, I would have cast it in a different direction. Even though he repudiates the idea of doing another Iraq or Afghanistan, much of the text of this speech embraces the whole counterinsurgency movement in the American army. Michael Howard, the eminent war historian, says that an army or military will never get its doctrine perfect or correct. What's important is that it doesn't get it so wrong that it's completely ill-prepared for future conflicts. The classic example of course is the French between the end of WWI and the start of WWII. The U.S. Army has got to do a lot of things. Is the army going to go into China to do a major land operations? No. Is Russia going to reestablish the Soviet Union again? No. But one can imagine lots of different contingencies where the army is going to have to know how to do combined arms operations. A collapsed North Korean state, a messy occupation by South Korea, which would require U.S. Army assistance. There are all kinds of scenarios in the future.
What do you mean by messy occupation?
I mean a collapsed North Korean state with parts of its military and structure that remain in place and remain defiant. In occupying the North, the South has to fight and be able to do that. It's arguably possible that the American army will assist the South in doing that.

This post originally appeared at CFR.org.

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Some closing thoughts:

What credence will we give politicians, cabinet members, and their hand-picked generals to predict no more overseas wars? or even define their nature? What tradeoffs, political and military, are we willing to risk? The voters will ultimately decide - but they must be given clear choices based on transparent access to facts about the threats we face and the sacrifices demanded to meet those threats - the so-called "sophisticated hybrid opponents" of modern defense analyst speech.

It's good to know our Army has historically-minded thinkers and doers like Hanson and Gentile, but of this, I never had any serious doubts.

My real hope is that the Hanson, Gentiles and other informed dissenters - of whatever stripe in our Army - will receive a fair and balanced hearing - unlike irregular warfare proponents after Vietnam - as the Army debates and deliberates on its structure and mission competencies as it moves forward in another age of political and institutional uncertainty.

As a more accomplished person I know likes to preface his musings - "I'm just saying".....

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World War I Veterans and Armistice Day Remembered - John Dickinson Sherman

2011-11-01T07:17:00.005-04:00

A collection of John Dickinson Sherman articles primarily in honor of World War I Veterans and Armistice Days from 1919 through to his death in 1926. I dedicate this page to the memory of:

Thurston Vern BAILEY

who was born 14 Apr 1895 in Carlton, Thayer Co, NE. "Bill" Bailey was a fine athlete for Hebron High School. He joined the Army on 9 Sep 1917. He was promoted to Sergeant in Company M, 355th Infantry, 89th Division, on 8 Jan 1918 and was entitled to wear two gold service chevrons. He saw action in the following campaigns:
8 Aug 1918 - 11 Aug 1918 - Lucey Sector, France.
12 Sep 1918 - 16 Sep 1918 - St Miheil Offensive.
17 Sep 1918 - 7 Oct 1918 - Euvezin, France.
19 Oct - 1918 - 11 Nov 1918 - Meuse - Argonne Offensive.
Upon returning home from the war he was plagued by the effects of poisonous gas that he was exposed to and was placed in a medical facility where he lived until his death, 12 Sep 1986, in Gillette, Campbell Co, WY.

How Our Heroes Look - By John Dickinson Sherman

Washington County News - Jul 3, 1919

http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/washcounty&CISOSHOW=48816&CISOPTR=48716

Dakota County Herald - Jul 03, 1919

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2010270500/1919-07-03/ed-1/seq-3/;words=SHERMAN+JOHN+DICKINSON?date1=1918&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=John+Dickinson+Sherman&y=19&x=17&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2&index=19

The Red Cloud Chief - Jul 10, 1919

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022835/1919-07-10/ed-1/seq-3/;words=JOHN+SHERMAN+DICKINSON?date1=1860&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=John+Dickinson+Sherman&y=8&x=9&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2&page=3&page=2&page=1&page=3&page=4&page=5&index=13

78 Congressional Medals of Honor to A.E.F. - By John Dickinson Sherman
The Polk County News - Sep 19, 1919 (better illustration)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WJ4kAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0kMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3417%2C3639964

The Woodville Republican - Sep 27, 1919 (better text copy)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NhYlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vxIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1961%2C1259608

The Red Cloud Chief - Sep 25, 1919

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022835/1919-09-25/ed-1/seq-7/;words=John+Sherman+Dickinson?date1=1860&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=John+Dickinson+Sherman&y=8&x=9&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2&page=3&page=2&page=1&page=3&page=4&page=5&index=14

How About West Point?
The Woodville Republican - Aug 21, 1920
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rxwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yhIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4403%2C770425

Alvin York - Conscience and Gun and Redhead Nerve - John Dickinson Sherman
Davis County Clipper - Sep 3, 1920
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/davis2&CISOSHOW=41942&CISOPTR=41919

Joseph Oklahombi - Choctaw War Hero - By John Dickinson Sherman
The Turners Falls Reporter - Nov 2, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=C9pBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C1867630

Spirit of Armistice Day - By John Dickinson Sherman
The Turners Falls Reporter - Nov 9, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DNpBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3078%2C1926369

Samuel Woodfill - Hero of Heroes - By John Dickinson Sherman
The Turners Falls Reporter - Jan 11, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FdpBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1381%2C2283548

The Red Cloud Chief - Jan 12, 1922
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022835/1922-01-12/ed-1/seq-3/;words=SHERMAN+JOHN+DICKINSON?date1=1918&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=John+Dickinson+Sherman&y=19&x=17&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2&index=9

"Lost Battalion Was Not Lost" - By John Dickinson Sherman
The Polk County News - Feb 10, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IS1MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zzADAAAAIBAJ&pg=1212%2C527324

The Jasper News - Feb 09, 1922
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061052/1922-02-09/ed-1/seq-2/;words=SHERMAN+JOHN+DICKINSON?date1=1918&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=John+Dickinson+Sherman&y=19&x=17&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=4&index=1

Indepedence Day 1922 - By John Dickinson Sherman
Lehi Sun - Jun 29, 1922
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058091/1922-06-29/ed-1/seq-9/;words=JOHN+SHERMAN+DICKINSON?date1=1860&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=John+Dickinson+Sherman&y=8&x=9&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2&page=3&page=2&page=1&page=3&page=4&page=5&index=12

Spirit of Memorial Day, 1923 - By John Dickinson Sherman
Providence County Times - May 29, 1923
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Yl1iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VXYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1102%2C4340940

War As It Will Be Fought - Chemistry To Make It Bloodless But Even More Awful - By John Dickinson Sherman
Providence County Times - Oct 16, 1923
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=il1iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VXYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3200%2C6634646

Spirit Of Armistice Day - By John Dickinson Sherman
Woodville Republican - Nov 3, 1923
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mqM8AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YfYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1707%2C2621413
Providence County Times - Nov 6, 1923
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kF1iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VXYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1250%2C7013537

Blue, Gray and Khaki - Memorial Day - By John Dickinson Sherman
Providence County Times - May 20, 1924
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CMxkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RXYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1515%2C1102099

Six Years After - Armistice Day, 1924, Holds Promise for Future - By John Dickinson Sherman
Providence County Times, Oct 31, 1924
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N8xkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RXYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4032%2C3361837

Sioux County Newspaper Archives (1872-2007) Free

http://siouxcounty.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx Rock Valley Bee

ROCK VALLEY BEE Memorial Day, 1925 By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

Friday, May 15, 1925 Rock Valley, Iowa

see also Boyden Reporter, Hospers Tribune , Sioux Center News

Navy Day - By John Dickinson Sherman

Vernal Express - Oct 23, 1925

http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/vernal2&CISOSHOW=31775&CISOPTR=31612

Armistice Day, 1925 - By John Dickinson Sherman

Vernal Express - Nov 6, 1925

http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/vernal2&CISOSHOW=31992&CISOPTR=31950

Rodgers and Lexington - Naval History - By John Dickinson Sherman

Vernal Express - Nov 13, 1925

http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/vernal2&CISOSHOW=32218&CISOPTR=32120

"Soldier and Sailor Too" - 150 Years of U.S. Marine Corps - By John Dickinson Sherman
Three Forks News - Feb 18, 1926
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=onNFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=824%2C34776

JOHN D. SHERMAN, NEWSPAPER MAN, DIES HERE AT 67
Chicago Tribune - Mar 20, 1926
John Dickinson Sherman, thirty and more years ago city editor of THE TRIBUNE and a veteran Chicago newspaper man, died in St. Luke's hospital shortly after 8 o'clock last night of acute stomach trouble from which he had been suffering for years.

Memorial Day, 1926
Three Forks News - May 20, 1926 (in Feb 18 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=onNFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1644%2C366063

World War I - "Reputations Ten Years After" - By Elmo Scott Watson
Duchesne County Newspapers Nov 9, 1928

http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/udr&CISOSHOW=76440&CISOPTR=76385

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Search results Utah: 490 item(s) for: ""john dickinson sherman""

Search results Chronicling America (Library of Congress): john dickinson sherman

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Yahoo.com
October 5, 2011

Senators Urge New Look At Black Soldier's Heroics

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Democratic senators say they have new evidence of a black soldier's heroics during World War I, and want him to be considered for the Medal of Honor.

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon sent a letter asking Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to consider the honor for Sgt. Henry Lincoln Johnson. They say they have a handwritten account from Johnson's partner on sentry duty when 20 Germans attacked the 369th Infantry, also known as the Harlem Hellfighters, on May 15, 1918.

The senators say U.S. officials for 90 years have said there were not enough U.S. sources to confirm his story.

Johnson was awarded the Purple Heart in 1996 and the Distinguished Service Cross in 2003. He received France's highest award for valor in 1918.

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INTRODUCING a lost - what should have been by now a popular classic - song honoring Veterans by
The Wagoneers - "Rows And Rows"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MMjdF4mhHU
from the compilation CD The Essential Wagoneers

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Elmo Scott Watson's Tales of the Old Frontier - and more

2011-10-01T05:06:00.002-04:00

Elmo Scott Watson - Tales of the Old Frontier

From various Warren Tribune issues in October and November, 1923

Tales of the Old Frontier- The Warren Tribune Oct, 1923

Tales of the Old Frontier- The Warren Tribune Nov, 1923

The Warren Tribune (Warren Indiana)
728 issues
Jan 2, 1913 - Feb 29, 2008
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ESW in Rotarian Magazine

http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=elmo+scott+watson&tbs=,bkt:m,bkms:1168684103302644226

Does Radio Harm Our Children? by Elmo Scott Watson, The Rotarian Nov 1938
http://books.google.com/books?id=FkEEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA13

Keeping Up With The Fourth Estate? by Elmo Scott Watson, The Rotarian Nov 1943
http://books.google.com/books?id=qkMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA5

Rotarian Dec 1948_Viking Church or a Colonial Windmill? by Elmo Scott Watson, pp 16-18
http://books.google.com/books?id=xkMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16

see wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Tower_%28Rhode_Island%29

The Newport Tower (also known as: Round Tower, Touro Tower, Newport Stone Tower and Old Stone Mill) is a round stone tower located in Touro Park in Newport, Rhode Island (USA).
It is commonly considered to have been a windmill built in the mid 17th century. However, the tower has received attention due to speculation that it is actually several centuries older and represents evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.

also insert on p. 18..Were There Vikings in Minnesota in 1362?

see wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Runestone
"The Kensington Runestone is a 200-pound slab of greywacke covered in runes on its face and side which, if genuine, would suggest that Scandinavian explorers reached the middle of North America in the 14th century. It was found in 1898 in the largely rural township of Solem, Douglas County, Minnesota, and named after the nearest settlement, Kensington. Almost all Runologists and experts in Scandinavian linguistics consider the runestone to be a hoax.^[2]^[3] The runestone has been analyzed and dismissed repeatedly without local effect.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] The community of Kensington is solidly behind the runestone, which has transcended its original cultural purposes and has "taken on a life of its own".^[9]^[10]"....in 1949, when the stone was put on display at the Smithsonian Institution, and scholars such as William Thalbitzer and S. N. Hagen published papers supporting its authenticity.^[34] However, at nearly the same time, Scandinavian linguists Sven Jansson, Erik Moltke, Harry Anderson and K. M. Nielsen, along with a popular book by Erik Wahlgren again questioned the Runestone's authenticity."

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The Bridge Was Burned at Chatsworth, By Elmo Scott Watson, in Disaster! Ben Kartman, Leonard Brown, Ayer Publishing, 1971
http://books.google.com/books?id=SZ5oYy4lO5MC&lpg=PA61

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The Black Hills by Roderick Peattie - 1952 - 320 pages - Snippet view
CHAPTER FOUR CRAZY HORSE- THE GREATEST AMONG THEM by Elmo Scott Watson

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ESW mentioned on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc97GED-HB0

""Streets of Laredo", also known as the "Cowboy's Lament", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying cowboy tells his story to a living one. Derived from the English folk song "The Unfortunate Lad", it has become a folk music standard, and as such has been performed, recorded and adapted numerous times, with many variations.

The old-time cowboy Frank H. Maynard (1853-1926) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, claimed authorship of the revised Cowboy's Lament, and his story was widely reported in 1924 by the journalism professor Elmo Scott Watson, then on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

For more info.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_Laredo_(song)

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Elmo Scott Watson's Stories of Great Scouts and Great Indians

2011-09-06T09:21:00.009-04:00

from various newspapers 1921-1922

From the Chronicling America project (Library of Congress/National Endowment for the Humanities): 

22 Results for Elmo Scott Watson

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1910&date2=1922&proxtext=Elmo+Scott+Watson&x=12&y=20&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic

71 results          containing                   “Stories of Great Scouts”
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1836&date2=1922&proxtext=Stories+of+Great+Scouts&x=0&y=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic 

70 results          containing                   “Stories of Great Indians” 
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1836&date2=1922&proxtext=Stories+of+Great+Indians&x=0&y=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic
 
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Extracts from my previous post:  Selected links to Historical Articles by ES Watson and JD Sherman - 1921-1945

1921

Stories of Great Scouts - Sacagawea, "The Bird Woman" Scout - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Nov 4, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lgZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=6694%2C3240954


Stories of Great Scouts - Davy Crockett, The Hero Of The Alamo - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Nov 18, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lwZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=2600%2C3264812

 Stories of Great Scouts - How Israel Putnam Outwitted The Indian Bear - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Nov 25, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mAZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=4682%2C3277587

related=  

Rain-In-The- Face  and Some Indian History - By John Dickinson Sherman 
The Polk County News - Nov 25, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MBRMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ay8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5956%2C4277604
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Nov 30, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D9pBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1028%2C2033120 
  
Stories of Great Scouts - When Andy Lewis Fought Chief Cornstalk - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Dec 2, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1886%2C3304125

Stories of Great Scouts - Captain Sam Brady And His famous Leap - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Dec 9, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mgZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1880%2C3325310

Stories of Great Scouts - The Exploit Of Pioneer Scout Andrew Poe - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Dec 16, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mwZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1024%2C3340404

Stories of Great Scouts - Major Sam McCullough's Leap for Life -  By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Dec 30, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1058%2C3378745

   

1922


Stories of Great Scouts - Daniel Boone, The Great Kentuckian - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Jan 13, 1922 (Mixed in with Bill Hamilton article in next issue)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ngZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1027%2C3416530

Stories of Great Scouts page 1 - Old Bill Hamilton's Strange Duel With An Englishmen - By Elmo Scott 
Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nwZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=2621%2C3420052
- How Cody Got Nickname of "Buffalo Bill" page 3 - By Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nwZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=2589%2C3431709
- The Withrow Banner - Jan 20, 1922

Stories of Great Scouts- Jedediah Strong Smith, The American Ulysses - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Jan 27, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oAZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=2589%2C3448994

Stories of Great Scouts page 2 - Jim Beckworth, Mulatto Who Became Crow Chief - By Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1034%2C3463805
- The Iron Nerve Of Sam Houston, The Virginian
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=4695%2C3464315
- Old Jim Baker's Duel With A Frenchman - 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1985%2C3470902
- The Withrow Banner - Feb 3, 1922

Stories of Great Scouts - Ten to One - Wild Bill's Greatest Fight - By Elmo Scott Watson  

- The Withrow Banner - Feb 10, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ogZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1403%2C3488715

Stories of Great Scouts - Belzy Dodd, The "Man Who Scalps Himself" - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Feb 17, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=owZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=4485%2C3500019

The Story of Our States - NEBRASKA - By Johnathan Brace
- The Withrow Banner - Feb 17, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=owZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=3348%2C3503161 


Stories of Great Scouts - How Kit Carson Fought A Duel And Won A Wife - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Mar 3, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=2521%2C3542310

Three Famous American Forts - Ticonderoga, Creve Coeur, Massac - unknown
- The Polk County News - Mar 10, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Iy1MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zzADAAAAIBAJ&pg=1516%2C697668 

Stories of Great Scouts - ‎Opechancanough, Fought At Age 100 Years - Pieskaret, The Conqueror Of The Iroquois - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Mar 11, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=flRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2502%2C2564635

Stories of Great Indians - Opechancanough, Fought At Age 100 Years - Pieskaret, The Conqueror Of The 
Iroquois - By Elmo Scott Watson
plus Three Famous American Forts - Ticonderoga, Creve Coeur, Massac - unknown
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Mar 15, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HtpBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1139%2C2700369

Stories of Great Scouts - Old Jim Bridger Teller of "Tall Yarns" - By Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pwZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1841%2C3567264
- Uncle Dick Wootton, "Keeper Of The Gate In Mountains"
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pwZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1019%2C3578847
- The Withrow Banner - Mar 17, 1922
   

Stories of Great Indians - Philip Of Pokanoket "Terror of New England" - Canonchet, The Sachem of the Narragansetts - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Mar 18, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=flRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2502%2C2564635
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Mar 22, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H9pBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1245%2C2720529

 
The Lehi sun., March 23, 1922, Page 8, Image 8
The Lehi sun. (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949 


Stories of Great Indians - Tedyuskung's Declaration of Independence - Pontiac, The Ottawa, The Indian Napoleon - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Mar 25, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gFRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2465%2C2671020
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Mar 28, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=INpBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1317%2C2762565

Stories Of Great Indians - Joseph Brant, Who Was Presented At Court  - By Elmo Scott Watson
‎Ellensburg Daily Record - Apr 5, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-88rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e4QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3421%2C3864795

Stories of Great Indians - King Hendrick Trades An Empire For A Coat - Chief Logan, The Cayuga; His Immortal Speech - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Apr 5, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IdpBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1464%2C2804615

Stories of Great Indians - Cornstalk's Fame And Death At Point Pleasant - Joseph Brant, Who Was Presented At Court - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Apr 12, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ItpBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1360%2C2846684

Stories of Great Indians - Chief Red Jacket Sage Of The Senecas - Little Turtle Vs. Harmar And St. Clair - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Apr 15, 1922
WHAT Demosthenes was to the Greeks and Cicero to    the Romans, Red Jacket was to the people of the Long House the Iroquois    Indians...
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gVRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2510%2C2696491

Stories of Great Indians - Warrior Tecumseh Became A British General - Chief Weatherford, Creek - A 
Page Of Bloody History (Fort Mimms) - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Apr 19, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I9pBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1586%2C2889588
- Lafayette Ledger - Apr 22, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=glRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2480%2C2773017

Stories of Great Indians - Chief Red Jacket Sage Of The Senecas - Little Turtle Vs. Harmar And St. 
Clair - By Elmo Scott Watson
see also-  Old Hickory's Birthplace - By John Dickinson Sherman
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Apr 26, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JNpBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=943%2C2930732

Stories of Great Indians - Philip Of Pokanoket "Terror of New England" - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Apr 28, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=2571%2C3687354

Stories of Great Indians - Sequoyah, The Cadmus Of The Cherokees - Chief Black Hawk, The Patriot Of 
The Sacs - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Apr 29, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g1RlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1853%2C2798619

Stories of Great Indians - Shabbona, A Pottawatomie "White Man's Friend" - Osceola, The Seminole, 
The Indian Hamlet - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Turners Falls Reporter - May 3, 1922 (in Apr 26, 1922 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JNpBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1232%2C2972789

Note - May 3, 1922 = the last Issue of The Turners Falls Reporter

Stories of Great Indians - Canonchet, The Sachem of the Narragansetts - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - May 5, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rgZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=978%2C3703923

Stories of Great Indians - Shabbona, A Pottawatomie "White Man's Friend" - Osceola, The Seminole, 
The Indian Hamlet - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Lafayette Ledger - May 6, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hFRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1916%2C2849589

Note - Multiple Great Scouts and Great Indians articles in the Steuben Farmer's Advocate and The Prattsburgh News - beginning in the Prattsburgh News section - first article in May 10, 1922

Stories of Great Scouts - Jedediah Strong Smith, The American Ulysses - By Elmo Scott Watson
Steuben Farmer's Advocate and The Prattsburgh News - May 10, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=48lZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1200%2C908219

Stories of Great Indians - Petalesharo Ends The Rite Of Human Sacrifice - Manuelito, The Great Chief 
of The Navajo - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Lafayette Ledger - May 13, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hVRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1928%2C2900541

Stories of Great Scouts - Daniel Boone, The Great Kentuckian - By Elmo Scott Watson
Steuben Farmer's Advocate and The Prattsburgh News - May 17, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5MlZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1099%2C956516

Stories of Great Indians - King Hendrick Trades An Empire For A Coat - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - May 19, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sAZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=992%2C3726839

Stories of Great Indians - Cochise, Who Trusted Only One White Man - Spotted Tail, Sioux Friend Of 
The White Man -  By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - May 20, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hlRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1984%2C2976954

Stories of Great Scouts - Simon Kenton, The American Mazeppa - By Elmo Scott Watson
Steuben Farmer's Advocate and The Prattsburgh News - May 24, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5clZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4195%2C996757

(for more on Kenton see - Tribute to Noted Frontiersman, - Urbana Daily Democrat - Jun 17, 1922
This sandstone fight feet high and with a four foot base marks the last resting place of Simon 
Kenton
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1OJZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lUoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=780%2C2161459 
and Running the Gauntlet - The Exploits and Ordeals Performed and Borne by Simon Kenton
The Daily Argus News - Nov 8, 1887 )
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5iUnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gQMGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4791%2C4539584   

Stories of Great Indians - Chief Red Jacket Sage Of The Senecas - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - May 26, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1855%2C3750992

Stories of Great Indians - Red Cloud Victor In An American War - Chief's    Name Was Old-Man-Afraid-Of-His-Horses -  By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - May 27, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=h1RlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3132%2C3002261

Stories of Great Indians - Chief Logan, The Cayuga; His Immortal Speech - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Jun 2, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sgZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1107%2C3768850

Stories of Great Indians - Roman Nose's Medicine War Bonnet Failed Him - Satanta Of The Kiowas, An 
"Orator of the Plains" - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jun 3, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iFRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1976%2C3053489

Stories of Great Indians - Cochise, Who Trusted Only One White Man - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Steuben Farmer's Advocate and The Prattsburgh News - Jun 7, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=58lZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4519%2C1065568

Stories of Great Indians -  Satank Shows How A Kiowa Chief Can Die -    Captain Jack, The Martyr Of The Modocs - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jun 10, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iVRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2562%2C3104268

Stories of Great Indians - Cornstalk's Fame And Death At Point Pleasant - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Jun 16, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tAZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1790%2C3817313

Stories of Great Indians - Scar Face Charley, Leonidas Of The Modocs - Chief Quanah Parker "The 
White Comanche" - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jun 17, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ilRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2566%2C3155256

Stories of Great Indians - Pontiac, The Ottawa, The Indian Napoleon - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Jun 23, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tQZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=3144%2C3860062

Stories of Great Indians - Running Antelope's Views Of Honesty Of Agents - Crazy Horse Foiled Three 
American Generals - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jun 24, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i1RlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2547%2C3231829

Stories of Great Indians - Chief Gall, A General of the Hunkpapas - Sitting Bull Who Was The Indian 
Sphinx - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jul 1, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jFRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1872%2C3257415

Stories of Great Indians - Chief Rain-In-The-Face Got Undeserved Fame - Crow King, Chief Who Defied 
Medicine Men - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jul 8, 1922
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON. the possible exception of Sitting Bull and Curley,    Custer's Crow scout,  more misinformation has been written about Rain   in  the Face chief ...
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jVRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2489%2C3308486

Stories of Great Scouts - Lewis Wetzel - "Death Wind of the Delawares" - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Steuben Farmer's Advocate - Jul 12, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7MlZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1585%2C1335936

Stories of Great Indians - Sequoyah, The Cadmus Of The Cherokees - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Jul 14, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uAZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1116%2C3920030

Stories of Great Indians -  Washaki, "Grand Old Man Of The Shoshones" - Joseph, The Nez Perce Indian 
Xenophon - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jul 15, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jlRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2564%2C3359726
 

Stories of Great Scouts page 6 - Johnny Appleseed, Scout Who Planted Orchards" - By Elmo Scott 
Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7clZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2738%2C1378536
Stories of Great Scouts page 7 - The Exploit Of Pioneer Scout Andrew Poe 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7clZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1634%2C1383354
Stories of Great Indians p. 7 - Shabbona, A Pottawatomie, "White man's Friend" -
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7clZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4768%2C1381177
Stories of Great Indians p. 7- Chief Black Hawk, The Patriot Of The Sacs - 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7clZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4704%2C1383393
- Steuben Farmer's Advocate - Jul 19, 1922 

Stories of Great Indians - Standing Bear Wins Liberty By Habeas Corpus Writ - The Iron Courage of 
Chief Dull Knife - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jul 22, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j1RlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=449%2C3410788

Stories of Great Scouts - Tom Higgins' Greatest Fight With The Indians -  By Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7slZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3684%2C1440967
Stories of Great Indians - Petalesharo Ends The Rite Of Human Sacrfice - Manuelito, The Great Chief 
of The Navajo - By Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7slZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1478%2C1441698
- Steuben Farmer's Advocate - Jul 26, 1922

Stories of Great Indians -  Little Wolf, Chief Of The Northern Cheyennes - Chief Ouray, The Dictator 
of the Utes - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Jul 29, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kFRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1007%2C3468293

related=

Pocahontas in Bronze  - By John Dickinson Sherman
- Providence County Times - Aug 1, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Dl1iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VXYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=866%2C222218 

Stories of Great Indians - Chief Weatherford, Creek - A Page Of Bloody History (Fort Mimms) - By 
Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=78lZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=791%2C1475328
Stories of Great Scouts - Israel Putnam - By Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7clZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4704%2C1383393
- Steuben Farmer's Advocate - Aug 2, 1922 


Stories of Great Scouts - page 2 - When Andy Lewis Fought Chief Cornstalk - By Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8MlZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=848%2C1506969
p. 7 Stories of Great Scouts - Belzy Dodd The "Man Who Scalps Himself" - By Elmo Scott Watson
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8MlZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1474%2C1534519
p.7 - Stories of Great Indians - King Hendrick Trades An Empire For A Coat - By Elmo Scott Watson 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8MlZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1456%2C1535261
- Steuben Farmer's Advocate - Aug 9, 1922

Stories of Great Indians - Geronimo, The "Worst Indian Who Ever Lived" - Chief Naiche Cures His 
Wife's Jealousy -  By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Aug 12, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kVRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2550%2C3603064

  
Stories of Great Indians - The Logic of Two Strike, A Brule Chief - Short Bull, The Sioux Chief Who 
Saw God - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Lafayette Ledger - Aug 19, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=klRlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3198%2C3654353

Note - no Withrow Banner issues in August 1922

Stories of Great Indian - Manuelito, The Great Chief Of The Navajo - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Sep 1, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vwZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=3380%2C4076491

related= 
Pensions For Forgotten Indian Fighters - By JDS?
- The Polk County News - Sep 14, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Oi1MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zzADAAAAIBAJ&pg=1141%2C3170704

Stories of Great Indian - Osceola, The Seminole, The Indian Hamlet - By Elmo Scott Watson
- The Withrow Banner - Sep 22, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wgZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1848%2C4132052

related=
Flatheads and Blackrobes - Unique History of Christianizing Montana Indians - By John Dickinson Sherman
- The Polk County News - Sep 14, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Oy1MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zzADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2760%2C3318022  

Stories of Great Indian - Red Cloud Victor In An American War -  By Elmo Scott Watson
- Withrow Banner - Oct 6, 1922
When government commissioners sought the right to build forts along the Bozeman trail to the gold 
fields Red Cloud steadfastly opposed this encroachment...
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wwZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=2525%2C4196836

Stories of Great Indian - Chief's Name Was Old-Man-Afraid-Of-His-Horses - By Elmo Scott Watson
- Withrow Banner - Oct 13, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xAZmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L5ANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1822%2C4214808
The Turners Falls Reporter
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4EsMycecMEYC
2,224 issues
Jul 3, 1872 - Apr 26, 1922 


The Withrow (Washington) Banner
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=-l7FTdOV6Y0C
474 issues
Jul 4, 1913 - Oct 12, 1923 
 
 

Lafayette Ledger  
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=iWL_APfBKHwC 
764 issues 
Jan 5, 1907 - Oct 19, 2006
no issues 1931-1934, 36-39, 41, 43-44


The Polk County News 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SjuI4pbJlxcC 
797 issues 
Jan 9, 1902 - Dec 23, 1926 
seemingly Drop JDS articles in Jul 1923 


Steuben Farmers' Advocate  
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=kzhWOX1w8eAC 
3,278 issues 
Jun 22, 1812 - Dec 30, 1938 



 
Note - following related article: 
Brady,  Miranda J, “Stories of Great    Indians” by Elmo Scott  Watson:  Syndication, Standardization, and the    Noble Savage in  Feature Writing "  Conference Paper/Unpublished    Manuscript presented  at the annual meeting  of the International    Communication  Association, Marriott, Chicago, IL,  May 21, 2009 
        Abstract: This paper  explores    the career and  work of journalist Elmo Scott Watson,  describing the    role of his  syndicated feature stories in  standardizing discourses    about American  Indian people in the popular  press of the early    twentieth century.  Situating Watson’s work  against the backdrop of    professionalized news, I  argue that it was  not merely the emerging    technologies which led to the  reproduction  of the noble and ignoble    savage binary in the popular  press, but the  “internal logics” of such    discursive formations which  made them so  easily reproduced. In    addition, I suggest that while  scholars have  focused a great deal of    attention on hard news stories and  the ideal  of objectivity, we can    learn more by exploring the  productivity of  “entertaining” newspaper    content such as Watson’s  stories. Watson  was an agent in reproducing    the standards of his  discipline, and  looking to his work can tell us a    great deal about the  exigency of  his field as journalism was becoming    professionalized. I  argue that  while Watson’s stories were  considered   entertaining, he and  others  in his field believed such  content served   an important  educational  function; in particular,  Watson believed he   was correcting  negative  misconceptions about  American Indian people   through the noble  savage  identity construct.
This early and life-long interest in   Native Americans  would lead  to the following "future" ESW  authoritative  articles still  cited  today - The Indian Wars and the  Press,   1866-1867," Journalism  Quarterly, December 1940;  "A Checklist  of Indian   War Correspondents,  1866-1891," Journalism Quarterly.  December 1940;    "The Last Indian  War, 1890-91 — A Study of Newspaper  Jingoism,"   Journalism Quarterly,  September 1943



curious "anthropological" history article:

Origin of the Red Man - Mystery May Be Solved by Museum of American Indian, Heye Foundation
Providence County Times - Jan 9, 1923
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=O11iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VXYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2706%2C2437424

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Bonus feature - 


Life Story of Tom Horn, Who Shot Men For So Much A Head
Deseret evening news., November 20, 1903, Last Edition, Page 8, Image 8
About Deseret evening news. (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920  
Tom Horn‎Daily Tribune - Nov 21, 1903
After leaving the cell Horn was permitted to shake hands with Charles and Frank  Irwin. Earlier the day Horn had sent for his old em ployer. ... 
Noted Frontiersman Dies By The Rope...‎ Daily Californian
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"TOM" HORN DIES COOLLY.; Noted Scout Hanged at Cheyenne for...‎New York Times - Nov 21, 1903
"Tom" Horn,  scout, Indian fighter, and cattle detective, to-day went smiling to   the gallows to expiate the crime of murdering Willle Nickell, fourteen  years ... 


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Tom Horn Hanged For Murder .‎Free Lance - Nov 24, 1903
whom Horn shot and killed on July 1901 at Iron Mountain. When tho trap dropped  Horn's neck was broken and 16 min utes later he was pronounced dead. ... 


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Tom Horn Dies On Scaffold Without Making Confession .‎Grand Junction News - Nov 28, 1903
at o'clock yesterday morning, just eight minutes later than was planned. Horn  stepped onto the trap at The mechanism of the gallows worked perfectly and ... 
The Execution Takes Puce .‎ Hendricks Pioneer



see also Tom Horn info at
 
http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/horn.html  

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Hang Together or Hang Separately - John Dickinson Sherman's Fourth of July Articles - 1921

2011-07-01T08:40:00.001-04:00

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Hang Together or Hang Separately - By John Dickinson Sherman
- The Turners Falls Reporter - Jun 29, 1921
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-dlBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ibgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4328%2C1118572

(see also: Declaration Of Independence by Sherman on next page)

From the Library of Congress - Chronicling America - Historica American Newspapers
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

- The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.), June 25, 1921 (pdf)
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090135/1921-06-25/ed-1/seq-8/

- The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.), June 30, 1921 (pdf)
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022835/1921-06-30/ed-1/seq-7/

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Daniel Boone stories in Boy's Life - 1914, 1922, 1954 - Summer Reading Plan for My Pal, Will

2011-06-23T13:49:00.004-04:00

My Grandson, William, will be arriving shortly for a summer visit...he already loves the old books and old TV videos/DVDs I, and his father, have of Fess Parker (RIP) as Davy Crockett (...Crockett don't lie!) and Daniel Boone (...was a man, Yes, a real man)....

I plan to share the following Daniel Boone articles with him at bedtime story-telling time (and someday too with my new grandson Eli!) They come from the back issues of Boy's Life...courtesy of Google... 

Or we will read them while he sits on my lap at this here ole' computer...

In that case, I plan to use You Tube clips of Disney history movies, Fess Parker and Johnny Horton songs to supplement...ain't technology great?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz0LW2XGooM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sPvWrL6KY&feature=related

Yes, indeed, as we have in the past, we'll sing a rousing song or two....with Audrey's help of course..."And we are the Sons Yes, we are the Sons The Sons of Liberty!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPyd0dnzYOI&feature=related

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Boy's Life

Oct 1954

Oct 1954 - Daniel Boone The Opening Of The Wilderness - By John Mason Brown - Illustrated by Lee J Ames? - reprinted from Random House Landmark Books, 21, 1952

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Jan 1922

Daniel Boone - Wilderness Scout - By Stewart Edward White - Illustrated by Remington Schuyler 

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Sep 1919

"Boone-like" Illustration by "Bothin" - Sep 1919

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This might be a bit too long to read at this stage (age 3)..but it's here for the record..the boy scouts of 1914 were given a lot more to read! 

Jun 1914

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The Daniel Boone Contest

Jun 1914 - Scouting with Daniel Boone - By Everett T. Tomlinson - Illustrated by "HPR" ?_Chapter I - III

Jul 1914 - Scouting with Daniel Boone_Chapter IV - V

Aug 1914 - Scouting with Daniel Boone_Chapter VI - VIII

Sep 1914 - Scouting with Daniel Boone_Chapter IX - XII

Oct 1914 - Scouting with Daniel Boone_Chapter XII(cont) - XIV

Nov 1914 - Scouting with Daniel Boone_Chapter XIV(cont) - XVI
Dec 1914 - Scouting with Daniel Boone_Chapter XVII(cont) - XVIII
Jan 1915 - Scouting with Daniel Boone_Chapter XVIII(cont) - XXI (conclusion)

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The Utah Digital Newspapers Project or How to Make ESW and JDS History Article Hunting Easier!

2011-06-18T01:49:00.010-04:00

Today, I found a faster and easier way to locate Elmo Scott Watson's (wiki bio) and John Dickinson Sherman's (no wiki bio) historical articles - see listings in my May 11 post: Selected links to Historical Articles by ES Watson and JD Sherman - 1921-1945

While researching the "Western Newspaper Union" syndicate, I discovered, by happenstance,

The Utah Digital Newspapers Project

by K Arlitsch - Feb 14, 2003

"Abstract

The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah has digitized 30,000 pages from three weekly Utah newspapers from the period of 1889 - 1922 and made the collections freely available on the Internet. This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a partnership between the University and two commercial organizations....
In particular, the process can be implemented incrementally, making it affordable for both small and large collections, and the technology supports many different digital formats, not just newspapers. The digitized newspapers are publicly accessible and may be searched full text or browsed by issue. With the recent award of a new grant, another 100,000 pages from an expanded selection of newspapers are slated for digitization in 2003....

Syndicated News

In the late 19th century, Western Newspaper Union of Omaha, Nebraska [my emphasis] sold newsprint, printer supplies and equipment to small town newspapers in Utah. It also sold syndicated news and other articles in the form of ready-print. The local newspaper editor would receive the newsprint, which was printed with national and international news on one side, and had space for local news on the other side. Western Newspaper Union also offered stereotype (metal) plates imprinted with articles. The plates could be fitted into the local newspaper's printing press.

Syndicated news was of great value because local newspapers could not afford to hire reporters to cover international and national events. Ready-print was a great bargain. Because the pre-printed advertisements paid most of the cost, ready-print was almost as cheap as blank newsprint. In turn, ready-print advertisers had a national market for their goods and services.

Besides national and international news, Western Newspaper Union offered a wide range of content including articles on agriculture, fashion, and other topics as well as columns of interest to children, serialized fiction, poetry, and other features. Many established and fledgling writers found it worthwhile to have their work published through syndicated services like Western Newspaper Union. However, none of these fascinating articles or advertisements had been included in the index for The Vernal Express....

Background

Too often the histories of small-town newspapers, and the people who worked long hours to produce them, are forgotten. Newspapers are a primary source of historical information, and are useful to scholarly researchers and laypeople alike. Historical newspapers are immensely popular with genealogists and historians, and it is the broad appeal of these materials that garnered so much support in the academic and public library communities to drive the Utah Digital Newspapers project. In spite of their popularity, newspapers are also one of the most difficult and inefficient research materials, and they are often not consulted by researchers simply because they are so difficult to use. Regional historical newspapers are rarely indexed, and therefore cannot be searched, and are usually found only in microform in centralized locations...."

So, because it was said of Watson that, "During the late 1920s, Watson's syndicator, the Western Newspaper Union, called him "the most widely read historical feature writer in the country."^[wiki-8], I went to the Utah Digital Newspapers site to see what I could find on Watson and his predecessor - John Dickinson Sherman. Sherman, it is easy to see by sheer volume, was up to his death in 1926, likely the "most widely read historical" AND - inspired by his wife Mary (see below) - "the foremost pioneer "nature" or to use a more modern term - "environmental" - writer up until his untimely death in 1926 (was Sherman, also a Illinois based newspaperman, a personal friend or even mentor to Watson?)

http://digitalnewspapers.org/

Using the search tool, and the exact phrase "Elmo Scott Watson," and patiently waiting through the minute or more of loading, I soon hit the proverbial pay-dirt!

Search results 4987 item(s) for elmo scott watson

To my surprise and delight, the 1st of nearly "5000 hits" yielded a serendipitous but curiously dated pdf article on Ulysses S. Grant, who was the subject of my long ago MA thesis subject.

Beaver City Press 1920-01-19 "Cadet U. H. Grant"

Beaver City Press 1920-01-19 "Cadet U. H. Grant"

However, the actual date of the issue was April 19 1929 and not 1920.....

I must ass that I was unaware of the existence of this article. A return search on google news archives of other non-Utah newspapers I had become very familiar with, to say the least, yielded nil on that date or surrounding it.....

Nevertheless, I told myself, a poor article copy is better than none....so, thanks Utah!

Or was it you Elmo? But - if you - then why did you let me waste all those hours hunting for, compiling, assembling and posting the links to your articles when most of them (5000) are easily accessed here on the Utah site - since 2003?

Oh well, here is the article as a jpeg image after some "cleanup":

A few hours later....in relentless pursuit of a "good copy"...

Using the provided Paper Timeline as a guide, I found another - and better - copy of the "Cadet U. H. Grant" article on page 2 in the
Millard County Progress 1929-04-19
issue and quickly made a jpeg of it.

(However, not so fast, as luck would have it......an advanced search using the exact phrase "Cadet U .H. Grant" or any of the words, or "Elmo Scott Watson" will not provide a direct link with pdf picture as displayed above,i.e. bring up this article as a "search result," nor for that matter, any other articles from the Millard County Progress "1929-04-19" issue, or even the issue itself as a search result!!??) I know - who cares but me,? No bother, here it is, a "cleaned up" jpeg made from the pdf file!

Onward! to Watson's prolific predecessor, John Dickinson Sherman - and here are the:

Search results: 490 item(s) for: ""john dickinson sherman""

Strangely, or I should say eerily, the first "hit" displayed was a personally sought for article on the famous WWI Medal of Honor Winner Sgt Alvin York. I had a feeling JDS did not overlook him - to be used in a future post planned for publishing this November around Veterans Day - or Armistice day - as it was first known...or maybe earlier....


1.		Davis County Clipper 1920-09-03 Conscience and Gun and Redhead Nerve

my "cleaned-up" version:

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Now, just before I was "led" to the above Utah Digital Newspapers "find," I had been researching available "web" articles on and "google book' articles by Sherman and his distinguished wife - Mary Belle King Sherman (1862-1935). I found a few short bios on JDS but more on Mrs Sherman. What a team they must have been!
Here is her remarkable and inspiring story as pieced together from the open web:

DECENNIAL HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1881 OF HAMILTON COLLEGE 1881-91.
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924030615086/cu31924030615086_djvu.txt
John Dickinson Sherman, son of Penoyer L. Sherman, '51, was born in Chicago, Aug. 30, 1859, and prepared for college at the Hyde Park High School. He spent the freshman year at the University of Vermont, entering '81 in the fall of 1878. He has been hard at work in Chicago ever since he was "turned loose." He began work on the Chicago Tribune in 1882 as suburban correspondent, and in July, 1891, was made city editor. He was married, Feb. 10, 1887, to Miss Mary Belle King, daughter of Rufus King, of Rochester, N. Y. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian. His address is 4433 Lake Ave., Chicago.

A History of the City of Chicago Its Men and Institutions: Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
THE CITY OF CHICAGO. 325
http://fkdocs.sesp.northwestern.edu/nodes/pages/57202/6457
John Dickinson Sherman is a native Chicagoan. He was born in 1859 in the home of his great uncle, Mayor James H. Woodworth, Wash avenue, near Sixteenth street, then the best resident district of Chicago. His father is P. L. Sherman, one of the old-time lawyers of Chicago, and his mother is president of the Chicago Woman's Club. His parents built a home in Kenwood in 1859 and still live in the old homestead. Mr. Sherman was graduated from the Hyde Park High School in 1876 and from Hamilton College in 1881. In 1882, while studying law in his father's office, he became Hyde Park correspondent for the Chicago Tribune merely as a diversion. Becoming interested in the work he turned his attention seriously to the newspaper business, and by 1890 had worked his way up to the position of city editor. He held this position for five years. He came to The Inter Ocean upon its reorganization in 1898 to take charge of the local department.

Mary Belle King Sherman (1862-1935)

"...known as the "National Park Lady" because of her dedication to the preservation of America's scenic beauty, aided in the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. Sherman later served as GFWC President from 1924-28, and encouraged clubwomen to pursue conservation efforts, which resulted in the establishment of six national parks."

GFWC - General Federation of Women's Clubs - Notable Clubwomen

www.gfwc.org 

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Duchesne County Newspapers 1920-04-01 Out-of Ordinary People - Mrs John Dickinson Sherman

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In The End... All You Really Have Is Memories

A HOME-MAKER WHO WAS JUST THAT - By Wright A. Patterson

THE PUTNAM COUNTY REPUBLICAN FRIDAY, December 1 1944

The Pentwater News - Dec 8, 1944
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bOpFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Zb0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=990%2C7089871

"RECENTLY I HEARD a woman say: "Whatever success I have achieved has been as a club woman."
Knowing that lady and her family, I would amend that statement. Her greatest success has
been as a home-maker and a mother. Thinking of that statement served to recall an incident of some years ago, in which another club woman, Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, then president of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, played a leading role.
I had known John Sherman two or three years before I met Mrs. Sherman. He was a newspaper man and writer of much more than average ability. For a number of years he was city editor of the Chicago Daily Tribune. The only thing of which he was inordinately proud was that of being the husband of Mrs. Sherman. He never wearied of the subject of her brilliance and achievements, though during the years in which she was actively engaged in club work he saw but little of her. Mrs. Sherman's activities caused her to live in Washington. He lived in a room in a Chicago boarding house. Their home was a mountain cabin on the side of Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain Park, Colorado. There Mrs. Sherman spent her summer months, and he spent his two-weeks' summer vacation with her.
From hearing so much of Mrs. Sherman I had formed quite a definite idea of her personality and appearance. To my imagination she was a portly, austere dame with a commanding presence. She would have gray hair, worn in a tight
wave "permanent do." Her dress would be a dark colored, severely tailored suit, with a touch of the feminine in the while ruching at the throat- and cuffs. Mrs. Patterson was spending a summer at Estes Park and knew Mrs. Sherman. Dropping off there while on a western trip, Mrs. Patterson and I walked down the business street of the village, and she was telling me that before I left we must call on Mrs.. Sherman. As she talked I noticed a chipper little lady walking toward us. She wore a reasonably broad brimmed light straw hat, cocked jauntily on one side of a head covered with fluffy, reddish brown hair, and was wearing a brightly flowered dress of light material. As Mrs. Patterson looked up the lady stopped in front of us, and I was introduced to Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman. "Not the president of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs?" I said. "That's me," said the lady. "But woman, it just cannot be," I insisted. "You look like you could cook a meal." "At noon, tomorrow, I will demonstrate that I can," she replied. "Mrs. Patterson and you are to be at the cabin for lunch."
That mountain cabin was a comfy, homey home for a man and woman. No frills, no fancy furnishings, but an attractive, comfortable place in which to live. It had every evidence of the home-maker's deft touch, with a thought for the man of the house. The lunch was the kind a man enjoys. A generous quantity of mountain trout, fried to perfection. Mrs. Sherman had caught them, as well as cooked them. There were french fried potatoes, hot rolls, mountain berry pie and coffee. She did it all. "Yes, woman," I commented, "you are a success as a home-maker, and knowing your son, I can also say as a mother, and I had thought of you only as a club woman."
Mrs. Sherman explained that the first essential to success in woman's club work Is ability as a home-maker. She possessed that first essential. I could understand John Sherman's pride."

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Women and Social Movements in the United States

Chapter III: Leadership, by Mildred White Wells. In Unity in Diversity: the History of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, by Mildred White Wells. (New York, NY: General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1953).  pp. 46-97

 https://www.inthefirstperson.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?

MARY KING SHERMAN, 1924-1928

  Though Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman did not become president of the   General Federation until 1924, she had been actively identified with the   organization for more than twenty years. She served as recording   secretary, 1904-1908, and was elected second vice-president in 1908. In   this capacity she accompanied Mrs. Philip N. Moore on the official trip   to clubs in the Canal Zone. During this visit she was stricken with an   illness which almost cost her life and left a permanent legacy of   physical suffering. She resigned from the vice-presidency in December   1910, after having been re-elected in the spring.

  Of this period of her service, Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker commented,  "Her knowledge of the Federation [p. 88]  was phenomenal. It grew to be a  custom in the Board when any disputed  point as to the past arose, to  say, ‘Ask Mrs. Sherman, she will know’  and she did know."

  As her health improved, Mrs. Sherman returned to Federation work.  During  Mrs. Pennybacker's presidency, she asked for the creation of a   committee on natural scenery in the Conservation Department. Mrs.   Pennybacker did better than that; she made Mrs. Sherman chairman of the   Department in 1914.

  Here was the opportunity to serve the cause she loved best. Since the   removal of the Sherman family from Chicago to Estes Park, Colorado, for   the improvement of the health of the only child, John King Sherman, the   mother had developed a passion for the conservation of the natural   resources of the country.

  Their cottage, Tahosa, "dwellers among the mountaintops," was on a  stone  and timber claim which Mrs. Sherman "took up" from the government  in  1909. Because of an accident to her shoulder, she spent months in a   plaster cast here. Long's Peak was framed in the window by which she   spent the long hours and she determined to climb to its top when her   strength returned. When she finally stood at its summit, she solemnly   vowed to devote the rest of her life to saving such beauty spots for the   enjoyment of all the people.

  Her first efforts had a large part in the creation of the Rocky  Mountain  National Park in 1915. This was the only national park up to  that time  to receive a formal dedication. The General Federation was  represented  by Mrs. Sherman and the Estes Park Woman's Club served  refreshments to  the crowd.

  Mrs. Sherman then threw the support of the Federation [p. 89] to the   creation of the National Park Service in 1916 and by 1920, when her   service as Conservation chairman ended, she had supported the creation   of six national parks. No wonder she became known as the "National Park   Lady."

  Her work for the preservation of forest lands was equally noteworthy.   While she was GFWC president, there was a widespread movement to plant   "Mary Sherman Forests" in every state.

  In September 1918, Mrs. Sherman was appointed by the Secretary of the   Interior as special assistant director of the United States School   Garden Army of the Bureau of Education. She was in charge of women's   organizations to arouse interest in the establishment of children's   gardens under school supervision throughout the country. She also served   during this war period as the one woman member of the National War   Gardens Commission. She is credited with the establishment of National   Garden Week.

  When the General Federation consolidated its Conservation and Education   Departments into the Department of Applied Education, Mrs. Sherman   became the chairman of the new department and it was from this position   that she advanced to the office of president. For the election, the   Nominating Committee presented the names of Mrs. Sherman and Mrs.   Wallace T. Perham of Montana, the current second vice-president. The   first vice-president, Mrs. W. S. Jennings of Florida, was nominated from   the floor but withdrew her name.

  Mary Sherman was a beautiful woman with the unusual coloring which   accompanies red hair. She was a ninth generation American, being a   direct descendant of

 [p. 90]

  John Whitney who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635. She was   born in New York state, later lived in Chicago where, in 1887, she   married John Dickinson Sherman, a distinguished journalist. Her club   work began in the Chicago Woman's Club, which she served as recording   secretary, and as chairman of the press and legislative committees. She   became an authority on parliamentary law, a subject which she taught at   the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. She was author of  Parliamentary  Law at a Glance, a handbook which had a wide circulation.

  Mrs. Sherman had a most orderly mind and was a creative planner. As  GFWC  president, she used these powers to knit together the loose ends  of the  organization and make it more efficient. She started with   reorganization of the offices at the new Headquarters on a strict basis   of efficiency and recognized business methods. She was the first   president to spend a large part of her time at the Washington   headquarters and her presence there gave her knowledge of its needs.   Since this building was acquired to be the center of Federation   activity, she determined to make it so in fact. The office of the   Treasurer was established there and an assistant treasurer employed to   handle the work. The office of corresponding secretary was abolished and   its work taken over by the Headquarters secretarial staff. Mrs.  Sherman  also recommended the raising of a new endowment fund, the  Foundation  Fund.

  A Federation news service was established during this administration  and  the editorial offices of the Federation magazine were moved to   Headquarters.

  A program as dear to Mrs. Sherman's heart as that of [p. 91]   conservation was the improvement of home life. This became the major   policy of her administration. She felt that the average woman's place is   in the home but that the home is the heart of the community, giving it   the life blood of human power. At her request the Federation created  the  Department of the American Home and Mrs. Sherman bent her energies  to  its development.

  As a result, one of the finest projects ever developed by the General   Federation took form — a nation-wide survey of homemaking facilities and   equipment in city and rural homes, followed by a campaign for better   equipped homes throughout the nation.

  After her term of office as president, Mrs. Sherman was made chairman  of  the American Home Department. The General Federation's efforts  during  her administration and chairmanship had much to do with bringing  about  United States Census recognition of the homemaker; also the  granting by  insurance companies of special policies against accidents  occuring to  women in the home.

  Mrs. Sherman took great pleasure in her contacts with clubwomen during   her visits to state federation conventions. She tried always to meet   their demands on her. At one time, both she and a state federation broke   precedent that they might get together. Sunday was the only day open  in  the schedule of the president's western tour so Idaho took that day  to  hold its convention. The clubwomen said they didn't know when they  would  ever have the president of the General Federation in the state  again  and they weren't going to miss seeing her. And one woman told her  that  she hadn't

 [p. 92] missed church for two years but she did it that day to see "the president."

  "I tried to get over to them the sense of their obligation to the   Federation, because it can only help as it is helped. And lastly, I   pointed out that this was the way for them to ally themselves with women   everywhere who are truly trying to serve America and make this country   the emblem of perfection to all the world. As the result of this   meeting, Idaho came into direct membership."

  In spite of the success and value of the home equipment survey, the   Federation was severely criticized in some quarters as commercializing   its influence and Mrs. Sherman was criticized for accepting payment for   the syndicated magazine articles she wrote on the subject. Being so  sure  of her own honesty and sincerity of purpose, she was hurt by the  lack  of understanding of her motives and her last months in office were   saddened by the necessity to defend herself.

 Her friends said of her:

  "I have never known a more genuine, a more sincere human being. Next   came her superb courage. It mattered not the ordeal to be faced, whether   it was physical, mental, or spiritual, she never shirked. She met what   came with her head up and her eyes upon her goal."[note]

 1. Mrs. Pennybacker

  "She walked straight toward the truth and right, as she saw it,  fearless  of results to herself, so long as she believed good would  result for  the cause she espoused."[note]

 2. Dr. Clara B. Burdette

 [p. 93]

  While she was still president, Mrs. Sherman was appointed the only  woman  member of the Advisory Council of the National Broadcasting  Company, a  position she continued to hold as long as she lived. Later  she served as  Presidential Commissioner of the George Washington  Bicentennial  celebration and was put in charge of women's activities.

  Because of these duties, she spent much of her time in Washington. As   she was crossing the street near her hotel in October 1934, she was   struck by a bus, thrown to the street and suffered a severe concussion.   After weeks of suffering, she rallied sufficiently to be taken to her   son's home in Denver, where she passed away on January 15, 1935.

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Mrs John Dickinson Sherman - Notable American Women:a biographical dictionary
Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James
Harvard University Press, 1974 

http://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&lpg=RA2-PA280

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National parks and the woman's voice: a history - By Polly Welts Kaufman, UNM Press, 2006 
http://books.google.com/books?id=yZ88rCE0Il4C&lpg=PA32

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Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park Then& Now, James H. Pickering, 2006
Westcliffe Publishers, Inc. P.O. Box 1261
Englewood, CO 80150
Printed in China by C & C Offset Printing Co., Ltd
www.redesignllc.net/images/EstesThenNow.pdf 

"In 1911, the Lambs sold the property to John and Mary Belle King   Sherman. John Dickinson Sherman, a prominent newspaperman, had come out   from Chicago for reasons of health and decided to stay. It was while   living at Wind River that Mary Belle King Sherman launched her career as   a conservation lobbyist through the General Federations of Women’s   Clubs. It would earn her the title “National Park Lady.” The ranch was   sold again in 1924, this time to Chicago doctor James Gay and his wife   Bessy, who built seven cabins for use by family members and expanded the   property to 525 acres by purchasing land on both sides of today’s   Highway 7. Althoughit was the Gay’s daughter and her husband who first   began taking in paying guests, Wind River Ranch, as the property was by   then known, did not become a full-fledged dude ranch until 1944, when  it  was purchased by the Robert Hutchinson family. The Hutchinsons  expanded  the number of cabins, built a recreation hall (photographed  above),  making use of the stone fireplace that had been part of the  Lambs’  “Mountain Home,” and for nearly
30 years made Wind River one of the most successful and popular guest   ranches in the Estes region, a tradition continued by its subsequent   owners." p. 158

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Their son John K Sherman:

The story of Scotch

Enos Abijah Mills - 1916 - 62 pages - Free Google eBook - Read

TO MARY KING SHERMAN AND JOHN KING SHERMAN WHO KNEW AND APPRECIATED SCOTCH ...

American motorist: Volume 8  - Page 7

American Automobile Association - 1916 - Free Google eBook - Read

... DC under Act cf March J 187y Copyright 1916. by AAA Publishing Co. table £°NTENT5 PACE Estes Park and the Rocky Mountain National Park— Scenic Wonderlands for Touring Motorists— By John King Sherman

[PDF]

NATIONAL PARK

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Photograph by John King Sherman. CHASM LAKE AND LONGS PEAK. ADISTINGUISHED feature of the park is its profusion of cliff-cradled, glacier-watered val- ...
ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/.../PartThreeNat_Par_Por.pdf?...3

Estes Park Archives  

http://www.estesparkarchives.com/documents.php

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Back Trailing on the Old Frontiers - links to 1922 newspaper articles

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Back Trailing on the Old Frontiers - links to 1922 newspaper articles

A Happy Birthday gift to Fierce-Horse!

"He should have been born in days of yore" - '74 USMA Yearbook

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"Back-trailing on the Old Frontiers" articles from 1922 newspapers - with drawings by Charles M. Russell - plus other related western history news items (in italics).

Note - "William W. Cheely and HP Raban formed a partnership and wrote a series of 52 stories, which were syndicated in Sunday editions of newspapers from coast to coast, some 70 of them. 
These appeared under the general heading of "Back-trailing on the Old Frontiers..." - Paintings, watercolors, bronzes, illustrated letters, books and ephemera, Charles Marion Russell, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc, Fred A. Rosenstock, 1972.
Since only 1 volume (14 of 52 articles) of a projected 3 volume series was published, a search for remaining articles has been undertaken.  Some of the articles imaged below have been re-formatted for readability and additional pictures inserted for enjoyment. I am more interested in the subject matter and text than the superb Russell artwork.
For more background on Russell's participation in this book venture see
Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art - By Raphael James Cristy, B. Byron Price
http://books.google.com/books?id=uqnLdHZwqOYC&printsec=frontcover  p.49
  

Madison County Monitor 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Kp2F6cy7E28C&dat=19221020&b_mode=2&hl=en

Sgt Cummins Received Congressional Medal of Honor
Madison County Monitor - Jan 6, 1922 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OR5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=710%2C4799618

C.W. Cook - One of the Party Who First Explored Yellowstone

Madison County Monitor - Jan 13, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Oh5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=852%2C4826448 

Charge of the Wagon Train and Rescue of Two White Girls From Hostiles Won Baldwin Congressional Medal of Honor

Madison County Monitor - Feb 3, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PR5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=878%2C4968704

Was Reno A Coward? Man Who Helped Bury Dead on Custer Field Says Not
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Px5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=810%2C5055728
Madison County Monitor - Feb 17, 1922 

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Miles City Independent
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=E6AQKB9d7D8C&dat=19220317&b_mode=2&hl=en  

Vigilantes Of Early-Day Montana - A Short History Of The State's Most Stirring Times
Madison County Monitor - Feb 24, 1922 (in Feb 17 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Px5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=966%2C5098904

Texas Ranger Colonel Fred Owens:  
 - First Smoke Screen - Old Texas Ranger Tells Thrilling Story OF Past - Says Superstition Resulted in Gernimos Surrender - 
Col. Owens Cowboy, Bronco Buster, Pony Express Rider and Indian Fighter
St. Joseph News-Press - Mar 7, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ERpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pEINAAAAIBAJ&pg=1221%2C1106181
St. Joseph News-Press - Mar 7, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ERpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pEINAAAAIBAJ&pg=1221%2C1106181 - Superstition Made Famous Indian Chief Quit Fight; Chase of the Apache Kid Recalled
St. Petersburg Times - Mar 10, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HKpaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D00DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6786%2C7306276 
 - Pocket Mirror Beat Geronimo - Thought Its Flash In Battle Was an Order From the Great Spirit - 
First Use Of Smoke Screen - Apache Kid Used It, Says Noted Ranger In Recital of Story Of His Eventful Life - Has Remarkable Experiences as Ranger
Middlesboro Daily News - Apr 19, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_WdCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5qoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1526%2C4827063

La Veredryes, Canadian Voyageurs and Explorers discovered the Rocky Mountains
The Milwaukee Journal - Mar 12, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8kQfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R34EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6301%2C1081525

Miles City Independent - Mar 17, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S2RFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4291%2C5473396

Captain Gray's Discovery of the Columbia River
The Milwaukee Journal - Mar 19, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9kQfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R34EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3564%2C2401821
Miles City Independent - Mar 24, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TGRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4198%2C5520018

John Jacob Astor's - Ships Meet Strange Fate

The Milwaukee Journal - Mar 24, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-UQfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R34EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5870%2C3877426 

When The Steamboat Josephine Went Within 60 Miles Of Yellowstone Park
Madison County Monitor - Mar 24, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Qh5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=840%2C5273503

Colonel G.R. Norris Recalls Old Indian Fighting Days, Guided Trip to Sitting Bull's Camp with Chicago Times
Newspaperman, Colonel Charles Diehl, in 1881, 
Madison County Monitor - Mar 24, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Qh5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=872%2C5338072

Army Cuts Imperil U.S. Says Pershing
Miles City Independent - Mar 31, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TWRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1748%2C5531658

John Colter - First Frontiersman to Engage in the Fur Trade of the Upper Missouri; How He Outwitted the Hostile Blackfeet
Miles City Independent - Mar 31, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TWRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3784%2C5565662

Herald-Journal - Apr 2, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AHUsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6841%2C165379

no Miles City Independent issues for April thru June

Joseph Culbertson, Son Of Alexander Culbertson, "King of the Upper Missouri" and Blackfeet Mother, Was Noted Scout
Madison County Monitor - Apr 7, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Qx5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=824%2C5358985
(writer's father, Alexander featured in book, Across the Wide Missouri,  "a 1947 historical work by Bernard DeVoto....about the  history of the  fur trade in the American West during the 1830s, a time when it was at  its peak. The trapping of beaver and other animals caused conflict  between the trappers and the various Indian tribes of the Upper Missouri  River Basin.    It is the second volume of a trilogy that includes The  Year of Decision (1942) and The Course of Empire (1952).
The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1948 and was  basis for the the 1951 movie by the same name - starring Clark Gable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Wide_Missouri_%28film%29
 
How Friars of Cortez, In Founding Cattle Industry On The Pacific Coast, Brought In Americans Who Take an Empire From Mexican Republic
The Milwaukee Journal - Apr 9, 1922 

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MQYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3109%2C26127

When Grant Sold Leather and Collected Bills In Wisconsin  - By M.M. Quaife
The Milwaukee Journal - Apr 16, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NwYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6315%2C1345281

Blackfeet, The Proudest and Most Warlike of Prairie Indians Defied Whites and Kept their Fine Hunting Grounds 
 The Milwaukee Journal - Apr 16, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NwYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3395%2C1487091

Liver Eating Johnson

Madison County Monitor - Apr 21, 1922 

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RR5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=778%2C5440162

My Memories of Grandpa Grant by Princess Cantacuzene
The Milwaukee Journal - Apr 23, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PgYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6206%2C2911913

Manuel Lisa, King of the Upper Missouri - Was The First Great River Trader and Made St. Louis the Center of American Fur Trade - by W.W. Cheely
The Milwaukee Journal - Apr 23, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PgYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3740%2C2932997
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John Colter - First Frontiersman to Engage in the Fur Trade of the Upper Missouri; How He Outwitted the Hostile Blackfeet - by W.W. Cheeley  see also next page -  Theory of Adam as Pygmy-like
The Milwaukee Journal - Apr 30, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RAYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3460%2C4471364

Missouri River Banks Form a Continuous Graveyard For Early Day Adventurers and Trailblazers of the West
Herald-Journal - Apr 30, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CHUsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3681%2C2550280
 
Tragedy of Sieur de La Salle

Madison County Monitor -  May 5

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Rh5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3520%2C5531941

and repeated May 12, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Rx5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3514%2C5575286 

Three Forks News
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1u-ON_Kw9acC&dat=19220622&b_mode=2&hl=en 

John Jacob Astor's - Ships Meet Strange Fate
Three Forks News -  May 4, 1922 (in Apr 20 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RW9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2892%2C3047353 
also repeated on May 25, 1922 (in Apr 20 link) 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RW9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2922%2C3180345 

Free Trappers Explored Every Part of the Far West and Blazed The Trails
The Milwaukee Journal - May 7, 1922 (in May 6 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SgYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6375%2C6161210

Manuel Lisa, King of the Upper Missouri - Was The First Great River Trader and Made St. Louis the Center of American Fur Trade - by W.W. Cheely
Three Forks News -  May 11, 1922 (in Apr 20 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RW9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1048%2C3091820 

Jim Bridger - Most Noted of Daring Explorers Who Blazed the Trails of the Far West, Discovered Great Salt Lake
The Milwaukee Journal - May 14, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W51QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TiEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3490%2C1033411

Madison County Monitor - Jun 2, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sh5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2723%2C5706902

related - 
Bridger's Last Resting Place is in Beautiful Cemetery in Kansas Beneath Great Boulder of Granite

Madison County Monitor - Sep 15, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WR5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=822%2C6388149

related - 
Explorers Confirmed Bridger's Tale of Yellowstone Wonders
Three Forks News - Jun 8, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R29FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=967%2C3496665

 
Healy and Hamilton Faced Death When 500 Blood Braves Stood Between Few White Traders and Vengeful Piegans - By Mrs J.C. Taylor - same page - Pioneer Who Killed Ghost Buffalo of Sioux Was Forced By Jesse James to Shoe Horse On Which Bandit Escaped - By Leslie A. Cox
Three Forks News -  May 18, 1922 (in Apr 20 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RW9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=954%2C3136182  

Missouri River Banks Form a Continuous Graveyard For Early Day Adventurers and Trailblazers of the West

The Milwaukee Journal - May 21, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Yp1QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TiEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2745%2C2469042

Truth About The Elopement of Jefferson Davis and Sarah Knox Taylor
The Milwaukee Journal - May 21, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Yp1QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TiEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6161%2C2448028
 
Johnny Clem Drummer Boy of Chickamauga, Youngest Civil War Veteran
The Milwaukee Journal - May 28, 1922http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aZ1QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TiEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6173%2C3995473

Yellowstone Expedition of 1819 Fiasco
The Milwaukee Journal - May 28, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aZ1QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TiEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3378%2C4048026

Fighting Sitting Bull After Custer Battle Described By Scout For Miles - by Joseph Culbertson
Three Forks News - Jun 1, 1920 (in Apr 20 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RW9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=916%2C3240814  

Pierre Radisson - Discoverer of The Mississippi River and the Creator of the Gigantic Hudson's Bay Company, Baffled by Fate, Died a Pauper
The Milwaukee Journal - Jun 4, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cJ1QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TiEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3758%2C6754640

Kit Carson - Paragon of Frontiersmen, Stands Forth as Most Heroic Figure in Conquest of the Wilderness
Three Forks News - Jun 8, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Rm9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2604%2C3413185 

Mythical Treasure of the Seven Cities Of Cibola Lured Coronado to a War that caused His Ruin
Three Forks News -  Jun 8, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R29FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3081%2C3457543  

Onate's March - How New Mexico Came Under Spanish Rule in the 16th century
The Milwaukee Journal - Jun 11, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YaxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5841%2C1211435

Three Musketeers of the Upper Missouri - Mike Fink, Carpenter and Talbot  - Who Met Dramatic Deaths in the Wilderness 
Three Forks News -  Jun 15, 1922 (in Apr 20 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RW9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2914%2C3313255

The Milwaukee Journal - Jun 18, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z6xRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6074%2C3042793

How the Friars of Cortez, In Founding Cattle Industry Brought In Americans
Herald-Journal - Jun 18, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-XQsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5323%2C6627147 

Fetterman Disaster
Three Forks News -  Jun 27, 1922 (in Jun 8 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R29FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2903%2C3579499 

related - see Shannon D.Smith's article and later book: 
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Massacre ... "Give me 80 men and I can ride through the whole Sioux Nation. ...reprint of  
'Give Me Eighty Men': Shattering the Myth of the Fetterman MassacreMay 26, 2006 ... 'Give Me Eighty Men': Shattering the Myth of the Fetterman
Montana: The Magazine of Western History > Autumn 2004 
'Give Me Eighty Men': Shattering the Myth of the Fetterman Massacre 
Calitri, Shannon Smith 
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1638957/posts - Cached - Similar
Give Me Eighty Men - University of Nebraska Press“With  eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation.” The story of  what has become popularly known as the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil  Kearney ...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/.../Give-Me-Eighty-Men,673385.aspx - Cached - Similar

Give Me 80 Men, women and the myth of the Fetterman fight - Indian ...3 posts - 2 authors - Last post: Mar 23

Give Me 80 Men, women and the myth of the Fetterman fight.community.history.com/topic/34979 - Cached - 

see also:

A Story of Fort Philip Kearny and The Fetterman and Wagon Box Fights:
http://www.neiu.edu/~mpodpolu/interests.html
link works if you paste directly in browser

Blackfeet, The Proudest and Most Warlike of Prairie Indians Defied Whites and Kept their Fine Hunting Grounds

Madison County Monitor - Jun 28, 1922 

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TR5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1162%2C5846268 

Kit Carson - Paragon of Frontiersmen, Stands Forth as Most Heroic Figure in Conquest of the Wilderness
Three Forks News -  Jun 29, 1922 (in Jun 22 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Rm9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2604%2C3413185
 
Hugh Glass - Amazing Adventures - Was a Victim of A Fight With Grizzly Bear That Became Classic of the Western Frontiers
The Milwaukee Journal - Jul 2, 1922 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cKxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6051%2C4524267

Kit Carson - Paragon of Frontiersmen, Stands Forth as Most Heroic Figure in Conquest of the Wilderness
The Milwaukee Journal - Jul 9, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dqxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5971%2C5677643

"Buffalo Bill"
St. Joseph News-Press - Jul 12, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vtlWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_kINAAAAIBAJ&pg=3792%2C4257562

Overland Mail Route
Miles City Independent - Jul 14, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UGRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4116%2C6262728

Mythical Treasure of the Seven Cities Of Cibola Lured Coronado to a War that caused His Ruin
The Milwaukee Journal - Jul 16, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=msMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T34EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6113%2C118071

Fetterman Disaster
Miles City Independent - Jul 21, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UWRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4282%2C6308982

How the Friars of Cortez, In Founding Cattle Industry Brought In Americans

Madison County Monitor - Jul 21, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UR5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1149%2C6042600

Overland Mail
The Milwaukee Journal - Jul 23, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oMMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T34EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6016%2C1370113

Wagon Box Fight
Miles City Independent - Jul 28, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UmRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3919%2C6351977

Sacajawea, the Bird Woman,Indian Heroine Who Guided Lewis and Clark....

Three Forks News - Aug 10, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SW9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2704%2C3679364

Missouri River Banks Form a Continuous Graveyard For Early Day Adventurers and Trailblazers of the West

Madison County Monitor - Aug 11, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VB5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3638%2C6150476

Overland Mail Route of 60's Spanned the Wilderness and Was MIghty Influence in Pushing Back Frontiers

Madison County Monitor - Aug 18, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VR5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=893%2C6190777

Alexander Harvey - First Bad Man of the Northwest Fur Trade and the Crimes He Committed in the Upper Missouri Country

Three Forks News - Aug 24, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S29FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2949%2C3768013

Thomas Curry's Personal Encounter With Sitting Bull     

Three Forks News - Aug 28, 1924

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l2pFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UrwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=932%2C1913390

The Wagon Box Fight 

Madison County Monitor - Sep 1, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Vx5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=826%2C6301864 

Crow Tribe, Whose Origin Has Proved Baffling Mystery, Lost 5,000 of their Tribe in a Single Day When Sioux Fell Upon Their Villages

Three Forks News - Sep 6, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TG9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2599%2C3856620

Note - last of Three Forks News Issues on Google News Archive  until January 1924

Crow Tribe, Whose Origin Has Proved Baffling Mystery, Lost 5,000 of their Tribe in a Single Day When Sioux Fell Upon Their Villages
Miles City Independent - Sep 8, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VmRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3861%2C6633167

Kit Carson - Paragon of Frontiersmen, Stands Forth as Most Heroic Figure in Conquest of the Wilderness
Herald-Journal - Sep 9, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8UIsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L8oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6621%2C5786820

Yellowstone Kelly
Miles City Independent - Sep 22, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V2RFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4311%2C6725361 

Milwaukee Bridge Tender Knew Gunmen of the Old West
The Milwaukee Journal - Sep 24, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=msMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T34EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6113%2C118071

Buffalo-Slaughtered by the Million for their Hides

Madison County Monitor - Sep 22, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wh5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2661%2C6410011

 
Sacajawea, Shoshone Indian, Helped Lewis and Clark 
plus  
Where Indians Came From is Baffling Mystery of America

The Milwaukee Journal - Sep 24, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c55QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WCEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6145%2C6500093 

Old Texas Trail - Fearless Cowboys

Madison County Monitor - Sep 29, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wx5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=810%2C6471250

Hugh Glass - Amazing Adventures - Was a Victim of A Fight With Grizzly Bear That Became Classic of the Western Frontiers
Herald-Journal - Oct 15, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v30sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=McoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2460%2C1184960

Wisconsin Veteran of Indian Wars Recalls Battle of Wichita -
Tells of Early Camp[aigns With Custer
The Milwaukee Journal - Oct 15, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iqxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=byEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6086%2C2915149

Yellowstone Kelly

Madison County Monitor - Oct 20, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xh5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3-wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=848%2C6621814

Note - last of Madison County Monitor issues on Google News Archive   

Pierre Radisson - Discoverer of The Mississippi River and the Creator of the Gigantic Hudson's Bay Company, Baffled by Fate, Died a Pauper
Herald-Journal -  Oct 21 , 1922  
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zn0sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=McoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6858%2C1771481

Wisconsin's West Point Men Justify Lincoln's Choice 
The Milwaukee Journal - Oct 22, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kaxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=byEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4237%2C4435899

Manuel Lisa, King of the Upper Missouri - Was The First Great River Trader and Made St. Louis the Center of American Fur Trade - by W.W. Cheely
Herald-Journal - Nov 5, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xX0sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=McoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3814%2C3050901

The Famous Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Miles City Independent - Nov 10, 1922 (in Nov 3 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W2RFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4381%2C7049707

bonus for our Canadian allies:

The Northwest Mounted Police

The Calgary Daily Herald - Mar 15, 1924

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VBFkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=93oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1320%2C1751896

Bent's Fort
Miles City Independent - Nov 17, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XGRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3064%2C7091831

Blackfeet, The Proudest and Most Warlike of Prairie Indians Defied Whites and Kept their Fine Hunting Grounds
Herald-Journal - Nov 18, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y30sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=McoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2926%2C4404284

Kings of the Missouri - Chapter 1 - By Hugh Pendexter
Toledo Blade - Nov 30, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V2JOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Wf8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2153%2C2626214

Manuel Lisa, Spanish Trading Post Found at Mouth of Missouri

Miles City Independent - Dec 15, 1922 (in Dec 1 link)

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XWRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3772%2C7287244

The Famous Royal Northwest Mounted Police
The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 3, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VcgWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4004%2C279709

Why His "Old Home Town" Honors Memory of Gen. Grant
The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 17, 1922
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I61RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6001%2C3362662  

Roman Nose - Cheyenne Chief

Miles City Independent - Dec 17, 1922 (in Dec 1 link)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XWRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4206%2C7397734

Railroads that First Linked Atlantic and Pacific in 1869
Miles City Independent - Dec 25, 1922

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XWRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MbwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4097%2C7489725

Note - last of Miles City Independent issues on Google News Archive

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via NewspaperARCHIVE
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/

http://crpubliclibrary.newspaperarchive.com/

Evening Gazette
Freighters - Oct 28

Old Prospectors - Nov 20

Rustlers - Nov 25

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Back-Trailing on the Old Frontiers - (Google eBook)

BACK-TRAILING ON THE OLD FRONTIERS - ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES M. RUSSELL
PUBLISHED BY CHEELY-RABAN SYNDICATE, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, 1922 - 56 pages

FOREWORD
THE fourteen stories in this volume are taken from the series, Back-Trailing on the Old Frontiers, illustrated by Charles M. Russell, which have appeared during the past year in Sunday editions of daily newspapers in all parts of the United States. There have been so many demands for the publication of these historical sketches of the old west in book form that it was decided to put them forth in three volumes  at a popular price. This is the first of the three. It is planned to publish the other two volumes during the next year. (only 1 volume found to date)

CONTENTS

Discovery of Rocky Mountains 1

The Story of Fort Benton 4

Adventures of Hugh Glass 8

Three Musketeers of the Missouri 12

Alexander Harvey, Bad Man 16

Kit Carson 20

Yellowstone Kelly 24

The Pony Express 28

The Fetterman Disaster 32

The Wagon Box Fight 36

Chief Joseph 41

Tragedies of Gold Seekers 45

The Texas Trail 49

Battles of Crows 53

also links at archive.org with flip read option:

Back-trailing on the old frontiers, 1922(archive.org)

http://www.archive.org/details/backtrailingono00russgoog

http://www.archive.org/details/backtrailingonol00russ

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