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March 01, 2005
The Taming of the Sioux
Our wonderful escrow lady, Angela Curran, is the grand-daughter of journalist and photographer Frank Bennett Fiske who lived in Fort Yates, Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota, and who was famous at the beginning of the last century, documenting the lives of the local Indians there. Here is some information about his art and life:
The Frank Bennett Fiske collection at The Library of Congress
Mandan Medicine Lodge about 1900
Elsewhere: Famous Native American Indian Chiefs, Warriors and Shamans: 170 Chiefs & Leaders listed
Vietnam War Zippos (From Zippo Gallery, a site for Zippo lovers)
The Dirty 30s!, a pulp sourcebook for any RPG based in the 1930s, by Paul Romine
Intolerable Beauty — Portraits of American Mass Consumption, by Chris Jordan. (From Wood s lot)
The Geographic Center of the U.S., near Lebanon, KS
2 from “Pratie Place”: Jewish pirates save Louisiana and “He waits on his porch for his teacher to pick him up”, 100-year-old George Dawson learns to read
The Salem Witch Trials: Transcription of the Court Records
Many More Unusual Stories about America Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Robot Wisdom”. Jorn Barger, The original weblogger, is back in business. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
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