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DURANGO'S WESTERN DICTIONARYWITH this issue. THE DURANGO KID is inaugurating a new feature for hit readers.This is to be a DICTIONARY OF THE WEST, including both western names and terms,explaining a little about Indians and pioneers, gunfighters and cowboys, horses and cattle.If you like the idea, why not write in and tell us so?

who they slaughtered and tortured whenthey could.

Not until 1650. when the ex-panding United States sent its cavalrymento the southwest, was there any determinedeffort made to subdue them. Even then, thiswar between whites and Apaches lasted fornearly half a century!

y The garb of the Apache wasvery different from that of the Plains In-dians. The Apache, wearing deerskin jacketsto' mid-thigh, belted with rawhide or withmetal discs chained together, with theirkneehigh moccasins they called n'deh b'kth,and with red flannel headbands wrappedabout their heads, were as distinctive as theSioux (in their war-bonnets). Their thighswere naked, for they wore no trousers butonly the breechclout under their jackets. Ofcourse, in cold weather, they did have leg-gins of deerhide that they donned. Beadnecklaces were worn. Most of their clotheswere ornamented with long fringes.

The Apaches ate deer, rabbit,antelope and elk, turkey and quail. They atecactus fruit, wild potatoes and meal, sun-flower seeds and wild strawberries for theirvegetables. They drank a fermented brewcalled tiswin that often made them verydrunk.

They regarded the wind andthunder, rain and sun as gods.

( APACHE) The Apache were a number of^-—

l_ —-*"^ Indian tribes living in andaround Arizona. New Mexico and Mexicoitself. These tribes consisted of Mimbreno,who ranged from the Rio Grande to the Gilarivers; the Mescalero, from the Pecos to theRio Grande and down into Mexico; the Chi-ricahua; in the eastern part of Arizona anddown into Mexico; and the Tonto, who alsobore the name White Mountain Apaches be-cause they lived in and near the WhiteMountains of Arizona.

They called the land in whichthey lived APACHERIA.

The heyday of these savagefighters were the years 1865 to 1885.

One of their most famouschiefs was COCHISE. Another was GER-ONIMO, who harassed the ranchers of thesouthwest in his sporadic raids. MANGUSCOLORADO was a third chief whose famehas come down to us through the years.

The Apache himself was nota tall man, usually, though he was strongand wiry, He had a very deep chest, andsinewy, powerful legs. His hair was blackand hung in thin strands to his shoulders.His face was broad, the cheekbones high, asthey were in all Indians. Some Apaches werevery good runners, with great endurance.

Never very great in numbers,the Apaches achieved their success in fight-ing because they were so familiar with thedesert country in which they lived. Mastersof disguise, they could make themselves looklike a rock with their blanket and a littledirt. They liked the ambush, preferring tolurk among rocks of a canyon and maketheir attack in that manner, rather than usethe colorful charge with which the Siouxand Cheyenne made their attacks.

The Apache are members ofthe Athabaskan tribal stock, and came intothe American southwest sometime duringthe late fourteenth or early fifteenth cen-turies. When they secured horses (after thecoming of the Spanish into Mexico) they be-came daring riders. They ranged down intoMexico, and fought many times with theSpanish and Mexicans. In the middle of theseventeenth century, we find them strongand. savage, already raiding and murdering,making their names a dread to the Mexicans.

BUFFALO) The American BISON,-"^ often misnamed the BUF-

FALO, was a powerful force in the life ofthe Indians before the white men drove themfrom their hunting grounds. Not only foodbut clothing and ornaments, rattles andmedicine, were taken from this shaggy beast.The tepees were made of buffalo hide. Thehorns were used for magic, and to decoratethe bonnets of the Indian medicine-men. Itshair was woven into ropes and belts. As canbe seen, such tribes as the Sioux and Chey-enne. Blackfeet and Arapaho, Pawnee andKiowa, needed the buffalo to exist.

At one time, the buffaloranged all over North America, even as fareastward as Pennsylvania, and as far south-ward as Georgia! However, most people as-sociate the buffalo only with the westernprairies.

Their number ranged wellinto the millions. They were like "a moving,brown sea" when the early explorers firstsaw them. When the railroad was builtacross the United States in 1869, it halved

the buffalo into a northern and a southern

tribe. By 1873, the buffalos in the south weregone. The buffalos to the north lasted until1883. Today, only on government lands can

the bison be found, and then only in a few

numbers.The Indians hunted buffalo

by driving them into great pens, by-drivingthem- over the edge of cliffs to fall'to their

deaths on the rocks below, and by racing on

fast ponies into the moving herd, firingarrows or lances, and, when they got rifles,bullets. Sometimes a prairie brush-fire was

started, with the herd being penned in themiddle.

As many as were killed bythe Indians, these were few indeed in num-ber compared to those killed by whitehunters. Many white men killed as many astwo hundred a day, day after day! Theirrobes made warm blankets, and'their boneswere used for fertilizer.

As an animal, the buffalowas the largest mammal in North America.Sometimes a bull is eleven feet long, and

stands six feet high at the shoulder! He mayweigh almost as rnuch as 2000 pounds ! Fe-males are smaller.

Today, there are about 25,000buffalo living on reservations and game pre-serves.

Founded in 1872, DodgeCity, Kansas, became a

cow-town almost overnight. Originally itwas called Buffalo City, and was built onthe northerly side of the Arkansas River.The railroad boomed its population, for thiswas where the cow herds came, up the Chis-holm and the Western trails, bringing long-horn cattle to the railroad pens, for loadinginto the cars. With the cattle came Texasgunmen, outlaws, human riffraff, and, in-evitably, the lawmen.

Dodge has been called"Hell on the Plains" and "Babylon of theFrontier." There was no evil that was notcommitted at least once a day, between sun-rise and sunset, including murder and rob-bery by violence, within the town's confines.

Men like WYATTEARP and "BAT" MASTERSON weretwo of the fastest' gunmen who ever lived.They served Dodge City as town marshals,and helped bring its evil life under control.

Some of the more fa-mous badmeo who came into Dodge City at

one time or another included JOHN WES-LEY HARDIN, the great Texas artist withthe Colt, and the handsome killer, CLAYALLISON.

Day and night, DodgeCity was open for business. In the daytime,cattle herds and whooping cowboys used itsstreets; at night the saloons and dancehallscame to life, and gamblers and gunmen,dance-hall girls and outlaws rubbed elbowswith prospectors and mule-skinners, Indian-fighters and traders. It was a colorful periodof American rirstory.

Today, Dodge City is afine, modern city of which the United Statesand Kansas are justly proud. If ever any ofyou readers visit Dodge City, be sure to seeits western museum. It is one of the finestin the world.

Fanning is a method ofshooting a sixgun. Instead

of using the trigger of the Colt—^s a matterof strict record, many "fanners" sawed offthe trigger from their guns—the man whofanned his gun concentrated only on itshammer. Holding the gun in his right hand,he would bring the palm or heel of the lefthand hard against the gun-hammer, bringingit back so that when it went forward again,it would fire the gun. Many "fanners" couldfire sixguns as fast as they could move theirpalms back and forth across the hammers.

Fanning the gun was sup-posed to give the user of this method addedspeed. However, according to many realgunfighters, fanning often disturbed the aimof the gun, so that a fanner might often misshis target entirely.

A ghost town is a townthat once was inhabited

and now is empty of all life. They dot thewest from Montana south to Texas. Some-times these towns were deserted overnight.Inasmuch as the; towns sprang up becausethere were gold- or silver- or copper-minesnearby, when, the claims or mines ran outthere was no more reason for people to stayon. Occasionally a drop in market prices forsilver and copper made it unprofitable, too.Or there might be a better strike discoveredsomewhere else. In these cases, everybodywanted to be on hand for that better strike.And so the town was abandoned and becamea ghost town, where only the ghosts of themen killed there stfll wandered.

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