The Indian attitude toward the land was expressed by a Crow named Curly: "The soil you see is not ordinary soil--it is the dust of... the blood, the flesh, and the bones of our ancestors. You will have to dig down to find Nature's earth, for the upper portion is Crow, my blood and my dead. I do not want to give it up."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Hear me," he said to the white commander. "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. Our chiefs are dead; the little children are fre...ezing. My people have no blankets, no food. From where the sun stands, I will fight no more forever."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked to walk up a ladder to sa...ve the trouble of preparing a drop for him. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am not used to this business. Shall I jump off or slide off?" He was told to jump.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Butte citizen's blood pressure rises and falls with the price of copper. He opposes war "and yet, when you come to think of it..., war would probably raise the price of copper and increase work and wages ..." Sometimes he is half-convinced that Butte is the real capital of the United States and copper instead of gold the proper standard of values. If he is a miner, or has friends or near relatives in the mines, he is often grim and worried. Butte's streets are crowded nightly with persons intent upon a round of pleasure in bars and gambling places, some seeking to forget the fears of daily existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wags try to invent new stories to tell about the legislature, and end by telling the old one about the senator who explained his u...naccustomed possession of a large roll of bills by saying that someone pushed it over the transom while he slept. The expression "It came over the transom," to explain any unusual good fortune, is part of local folklore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »