Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin Poet, Scout, and ShowmanBiography of American educator, author, explorer, and storyteller of the Wild West, John Wallace Crawford. |
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... rich men , Crawford insisted , even though he recognized that some had been guilty of crushing the working classes . Many rich men , he declared , had started out as " poor boys like myself . They won their fortunes by hard work and ...
... rich men , Crawford insisted , even though he recognized that some had been guilty of crushing the working classes . Many rich men , he declared , had started out as " poor boys like myself . They won their fortunes by hard work and ...
Page 200
... rich in the mining districts . For most miners , reality was fatigue , danger , despair , and lost dreams . Still , Crawford persevered . In February 1897 , he tried to interest Colonel Albert A. Pope , the bicycle manufacturer , in de ...
... rich in the mining districts . For most miners , reality was fatigue , danger , despair , and lost dreams . Still , Crawford persevered . In February 1897 , he tried to interest Colonel Albert A. Pope , the bicycle manufacturer , in de ...
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... rich . Shortly after arriving in Dawson , he employed Willis E. Ever- ette , a mining engineer , to analyze the black sand scooped up on the Hootalinqua . The sand proved to be rich in platinum . Craw- ford printed one hundred copies of ...
... rich . Shortly after arriving in Dawson , he employed Willis E. Ever- ette , a mining engineer , to analyze the black sand scooped up on the Hootalinqua . The sand proved to be rich in platinum . Craw- ford printed one hundred copies of ...
Contents
TWO YEARS IN THE GOLD FIELDS | 229 |
A GENIUS IN BUCKSKIN | 247 |
IF I BUT COULD | 273 |
Copyright | |
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