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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 ~he big Montana prairie atena as an Indian fighter more

than fif't1' year B ago.

~ear Face, with the ~lackfeet. fQught many battles against

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. "ei vilization call

'em sporting event now. 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. II

Bear b'aoe 1e an intelligent Indian. .ne is one of the few

remaining Indians of the bow and arrQw days. 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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GIlliAT NORTlfERN HAIL\, Y

Legal Department

601 Union Trust Building , 1;ashington , D. C.

May 7 , 1923 .

~ )lr . Budd :

Referring to our brief conversation in Chicago about the pro:9osed insJ ecti on trip of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations , over vari ous reclamation projects:

I will not have the definite plan of their trip until the 15th 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 ,

(3igned) J . H. Carroll .

Mr . Ralph Budd , President , Great Northern Railway Company ,

' t o Paul , Minnesota .

JHC-IVM / P . S . Have als o advised the Burling t on and Northern Pacifi c .

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L. W. Hill , Esq ., \ . P . Kenney , Esq ., C. O. J enks , Esq .,

Pl ease Not e . Ralph Budd . 5- 12- 23 .

AuSTIN NORTH, PRESIDENT

Glacier National Park

Great Falls Billings Cody Yellowstone National Park Casper 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 Houston

Galveston

San Antonio

Corpus Christi Brownsville Rabb's Palm National Park Tampico, Mexico

Aus tin North ,

P . O. Box 16 .

A.RRY L. MILLER, SECRETARY-TREASURER

GLACIER TO GULF HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION

Montana -Wyoming - Colorado - Texas and Mexico General Offices: St. Anthony Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

May 8 , 1923 .

Mr . Louis W. Hill , Chairman ,

Great Northern Railway Co .,

St . Pau1 , Minn .

I": / D. E. CoLP, M .... NAGER

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 Mexi 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 c10thing, to say nothing of the ' minera1s , oi1s , natura1 ga's etc .

Vfuere t~e summer may be enjoyed in Glacier land and .the 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 .

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 .

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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UNITED STATES WEST MAIN AVTOMOaIU IIItOUT£S

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Glacier to Gulf and National Park to Park Highways. ' 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?

.7 H "I rask 5 - 15- 23 .

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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' ri"1g the LJ l')lic -:11at Gl'3.cier National Pe.rl(

i~ only nivty lilps away f~o~ the scene of the c~.in~

prize figl t. mhis c i '~AS us abollt t~e b8st hook-up vIe

could "-;3.k, witl this e' ert, I "o"lf S'lY·

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stories had a ~eneral

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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. He uses a small penknife

in this work. 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 Indi~

School, and he is a modest genius.

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Chas. Griffin came up this mornipg and showed me a 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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AM NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENr GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRtlTW~_IDIllft

BERT STREET, ST. PAUL, MINN.

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STPAUL MINN

KINDLY ANSWER CARE CONDUCTOR TOMY NO 2 MI NOT WHETHER OR NOT

CUSS OF SERVICE SVMBOL

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apP81rl .lter the check (number of words) thil II • telegram. Other· wl.e II. character I, Indicated by the armbol appearing .lter the check.

I CAN HAVE SHORT MEETING WITH YOU ELEVEN' TOMORRO'j MORNING STPAUL

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Form 1153 GREAT 'ORTHERN RAILWAY COMPA'" I

TJiLEGRAM BE BRIEF v L. Paul, Minn., fly ~,), 19,,23.

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tomorroVl Sat l..rdf.Y mcrnin' my office St. Paul. •

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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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John Carroll ad.,l... that enatOl" of

Ohairman of the nat. Coml Ue Oil Appr :rl tl nt. lntOI'ml h

that mo t of the Co~ ••• lona1 Pgt7 '----- - ---of the Parka.

Oarroll wl11 b. her the

e.,ening for Glaoier Park and then ~ on

put, arr1".8 at Seattle June 17til. 4 •• 1r ---- _ ........

S 'tle. thence to Yellow.tone , out ~a the Co

I . P. lCemul7.

07 Mr. L. W. Hl11.~

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