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Glacier Park Station. Montana. June --- When he heard that
tor the coming enoounter at Shelby July 4th, the white man's Chief of
Fighters will receive, more dollars than there are Indians left in the
entire west.
~ear
Face, Blackfoot Indian warrior-phi1osppher of the
Glacier National Park Heservstion, grunted muoh amazement.
Little wonder.
for marked change, has oome over the fight game Since Uncle Sam forced
Bear Face to quit
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big Montana prairie atena as an Indian fighter more
than fif't1' year B ago.
~ear
Face, with the
fQught many battles against
~lackfeet.
the Sioux tribe on the benoh lands adjaoent
tOI
mere Shelby stands today
and his only trophies consisted of tne scalps he took wi th an oocas-iona1
bow and arrow or bowie knife taken from the vanquished foe.
"All different to day" he ruminated.
'em sporting event now.
"ei vilization call
Big herd of people go see hand.to-hand battle
and even pale faoe warrior struck down is brought back to life and banded
heap big bag of -wampum.
Huh. pale faoe funny people.
Bear b'aoe 1e an intelligent Indian.
remaining Indians of the bow and arrQw days.
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.ne is one of the few
He is about 88 years of age •
.ne talks through an !ndian polioe interpreter.
~ear ,blaoe has taken a keen interest in the Dempsey-Gibbons
prize fight. .ne recen'ly appeared at the Glacier Park Reservation agency
headquarters to make request for leave of absence to attend the bout. .0.8
figures, in his Indian way of calculating. that it will be a good fight be.
cause the cmmbatants are to be ~a1d eo generously for fighting. In the
days of his prowess as a fighter. he says. he wuuld have fought any two
Sioux warriors sl ngle handed with bowie knives for half a million dollars
less than these pale faoe battlers are1i:o get for fighting each other
with upadded hands."
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Legal Department
601 Union Trust Building ,
1;ashington , D. C.
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May 7 , 1 92 3 .
Budd :
Referring to our brief conversation
in Chicago about the pro:9osed insJ ecti on trip of the
House an d Senate Committees on Appropriations , over
vari ous reclamation p rojects:
I will not have the definite p lan of their
trip until the 15 th of May . I wi l l confer with you
prom:9tly at that time .
It is t h e purpose of t h e DelJ artment
offici als here to h~ve them vi s it the reclamation
projects and national parks . They will want to leave
ea ttle about the 18th of June .
Yours very truly ,
(3i gned) J . H. Carroll .
Mr . Ralph Budd , Pr esident ,
Gr eat Northern Railway Company ,
' t o Paul , Minnesota .
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P . S . Have als o advised the Burling t on and No rthern Paci fi c .
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L. W. Hill , Es q .,
\ . P . Kenney , Esq .,
C. O. J enk s , Esq .,
Pl ease Not e .
Ralph Budd . 5- 12- 23 .
AuSTIN
NORTH, PRESIDENT
A.RRY
L.
MILLER, SECRETARY-TREASURER
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D. E.
CoLP, M .... NAGER
GLACIER TO GULF HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION
Montana - Wyoming - Colorado - Texas and Mexico
General Offices: St. Anthony Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
May 8 , 1923 .
Glacier
National Park
Great Falls
Billings
Cody
Yellowstone
National Park
Casper
Mr . Louis W. Hill , Chairman ,
Great Northern Railway Co .,
St . Pau1 , Minn .
Cheyenne
Rocky Mountain
National Park
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pikes Peak
Garden of the Gods
Texline, Texas
Amarillo
San Angelo
Texas
State Park
San Antonio
The Alar~o
Cuero
Victoria
Dear Sir : - I am enclosing a copy of The Citrus
Tree , a little pamphlet of facts and potentials
of the Lower Rio Grande Va11ey , Texas , pub1ished
at Brownsville , Texas ; a t so a railroad chart showing the Great Northern s connection between
Seattle and the Gulf Coast with a connection
indicated from Dalhart or Amarillo via San Antonio to Brownsville .
I have always felt there is no better
country than that along the eastern slope of
the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Mex i c o and
which is covered by the Great Northern and it ' s
connections as indicated on your chart .
A country with every climatic condition and
producing every thing required for human consumption either as food or c10th ing , to say nothing of
the ' minera1s , oi1s , natura1 ga's etc .
Vfuere t~e summer may be enjoyed in Glacier land
and .t he VTihl-er along the Gulf coast and I am out
to win a wlger that I cannot get you interested in
south Texas as a winter resort .
Houston
Galveston
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Rabb's Palm
National Park
Tampico, Mexico
Vie Montana fellows have been so far from this
south Texas land as to give it little or no consideration, and of course the developement does
not compare VIi th the wesV,coast , but the climate
does and we will certainly be highly pleased to
at least have you grant us time enough to think of
this country as a Winter Tourist resort and express
your self in a l~tter you will dictate .
Aus tin North ,
P . O. Box 16 .
A short line of railroad now e
this city and also north to Frederi
eight miles , and the people of that
a right of way across the county an
to any railroad which will give the
the north with a thru connection .
Thanking you for early reply ,
to be ,
Very truly yours
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connecting Twelve National Parks and the Mexico.
Texas. WyoIDing and Montana Oil Fields.
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Re attached papers about picture entitled" The Path
of Empire" now in the hands of'P S Eustis , Passenger Traffic Manager of the Burlington :
Shall I ask him to send it to you?
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St. Paul, kinn., I
~y
15, 1923.
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a story th~ t has been sent bro9.dcast throuGhout the
countr'Y shc' r i"1g the
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prize figl t.
LJ
l')lic -:11at Gl'3.cier National Pe.rl(
lilps away f~o~ the scene of the c~.in~
mhis
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i '~AS us abollt t~e b8st hook-up vIe
could "-;3.k, witl this e' ert, I "o"lf
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L. W. Hill:
This is the
Indian
~enius
stories had a
in the
about this
years .
~he
other
lIhe
~eneral
country .
A
of a bear , was s ent out
the
remar~able
carving
story .
Yours faithfully,
EOIS
SEITH
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INDIil.H WHIT~LES BEAR
OUT OF TREE TRUNIq,
BOWIE KNIFE HIS TOOL
Glacier Park :::;tation, Montana. May - ....
~ational
fame has
come to John Clark, deaf and dumb Blackfoot Indian, as the result o£
an award for his latest piece of carving, "The Grizzly in The Trap"
which was exhibited at the
~rt
Institute in Chicago •
. The accompanying photograph shows Clarkls piece of
sculpture which he named flThe Grizzly in The Trap. It
As the result of
this prodnotion from a forest tree trunk, the young Indian now is
known
&~ong
American sculptors as "The Bowie Knife Sculptor."
Clark is a half breed, Blackfoot Indian and Scotch.
He is about 25 years of age.
He waS "discovered" several years ago
by Louis W. Hill, Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, WhO, him- .
self, is an artist of considerable repute.
Mr. Hill was in the wilds
of Glacier National Park, painting in Oils, when he ran across this
deaf and dumb Indian at work carving a life size grizzly bear from a
huge log which the Indian had cut , down out of the Rooky Mountain forest.
Clark also whittles tobacco pipes out of roots and he
carves striking Indian faces on the bowls.
in this work.
He uses a small penknife
The.young red man is a fluent conversationalist tfwith
his pencil and Pad of paper,
n
revealing a vocabulary that amazes
summer tourists that have the good fortune to "run across himTl in their journey through Glacier Park.
He was educated in Carlysle
School, and he is a modest genius.
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telegram fro~ the Agent at Brownin~ indicating that Levi Burd
and party of twenty-seven Indians lalso some women), including
Two-Guns White Calf, are on No.4 due in St. Paul tonight, enroute to Washington, D.C. They also have a baggage car loaded
with horses.
Mr. Griffin will "meet train and endeavor to ascertain just what party is going East for. Information he now
has is that the B&O prepaid the order for their movement and
in,directly he understands they are to attend a so-called ""Show
of Shows" at Washington.
He ifr arranging to furnish them with
some Glacier Park literature and cards,~ banners, etc.
The above for your infor!Dation.
H W Kask 5-25-23.
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CUSS OF SERVICE SVMBOL
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENr
AM
GEORGE W. E. ATKINS,
FIRtlTW~_IDIllft
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If non. of these three symbol.
apP81rl .lter the check (number of
words) thil II • telegram. Other·
wl.e II. character I, Indicated by the
armbol appearing .lter the check.
BERT STREET, ST. PAUL, MINN.
VII IJ.I STON NDAK 25 111.5A
I HILL
STPAUL MINN
KINDLY ANSWER CARE CONDUCTOR TOMY NO 2 MI NOT WHETHER OR NOT
I CAN HAVE SHORT MEETING WITH YOU ELEVEN' TOMORRO'j MORNING STPAUL
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Form 1153
GREAT
BE BRIEF
TJiLEGRAM
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lrain No.2,
_.rr-i.ving ldnot. 11 .)) . F.rid."l..}·, .-£y
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clo~lc
tomorroVl Sat l..rdf.Y mcrnin' my office St. Paul.
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-Mr. L. W. Hill:
Attached is
copy of a story which has
been sent to newspapers with a pho ograph of the old Indian
named
~ear
Face.
Thought you might have
passing interest in this.
OKE SMITn.
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enc.
John Carroll ad.,l... that enatOl"
Ohairman of the
that mo t of the
nat. Coml Ue
Co~••• lona1
of the '----Parka.I
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Oarroll wl11 b. her the
e.,ening for Glaoier Park and then
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put, arr1".8 at Seattle
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S 'tle. thence to Yellow.tone , out
on
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07 Mr. L. W.
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