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  • essential part of the nineteenth century American West, hired to keep a watchful ... needed to develop necessary skills, the American cow "boy" often ...
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  • * Curb chain: It is used on curb bits when riding a horse. ... with the Hudson River Chains during the American Revolutionary War. ...
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  • an important tradition in some Native American cultures. Sweats are often ... ==Native American Sweat Lodges== Indigenous peoples of the Americas ...
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  • Hans Commission, to study the claims that a horse named Clever Hans could count ... and frequent correspondent with the American psychologist and philosopher ...
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  • 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American cowboy actor and singer ... following paydays, one of which was a horse, Babe, on which Rogers learned ...
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  • The Omaha tribe is a Native American tribe that currently reside in ... Logan Fontenelle, also known as Shon-ga-ska or Chief White Horse, ...
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  • census.gov/statab/www/sa04aian.pdf American Indian, Alaska Native Tables ... quot; or "land of the sun," are American Indians now living primarily ...
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  • – February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. Moore& ... to categorize both in Modernism and in American poetry at large. She wrote ...
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  • were one being and killed Alvarado's horse. (While another version says ... of killing Alvarado, struck Alvarado's horse dead. Upon learning he had ...
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  • symbolize, respectively, four significant American ideals: independence, democratic ... (see Controversy below). Among white American settlers, the peak was known ...
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  • Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck ... sane or ordinary—-such as an opera or a horse race—-and turning it into ...
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  • covered the Great Plains of the North American continent. They were accomplished ... First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana. ...
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  • Indian Wars, as well as from the Spanish-American War, World War I, World ... battles of the Indian Wars. In Native American terms, it was known as the ...
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  • son of Lone Horn, he was cousin to Crazy Horse and half brother of Sitting ... The Sioux were a broad alliance of Native American people, divided ...
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  • ence/films/the-amish/ The Amish] American Experience, PBS, February ... * Driving vehicles other than horse-drawn vehicles (for communities ...
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  • chief and holy man. He is notable in American and Native American history ... Sitting Bull's first encounter with American soldiers occurred ...
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  • driving by. When the camera was fixed, a horse happened to be passing by ... :Examples: Gulliver's Travels, American Pop ===Stop motion=== ...
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  • national interest of the United States. American citizenship is not a requirement. ... Congress’ preoccupation with the American Revolution, together with ...
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  • skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and circus performance skills ... Romans, for example, introduced the wooden horse. In 393 C.E. the Emperor ...
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  • frequent prescription of their drugs. The American Medical Association has ... tampered with—the classic example being horse racing, where a groom or ...
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  • driving a chariot pulled by two horses. One horse is white and long necked ... must guide the soul to truth; the white horse represents rational or moral ...
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  • Currier and Ives was an American printmaking firm, headed by Nathaniel ... part of the larger story of widespread American upward mobility and the ...
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  • 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998) was an American cowboy singer and actor ... He also founded the Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. ...
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  • tale says that the dragonfly was once a horse possessed by the devil, and ... word meaning "the Lauma's horse," while in Dutch, Aeshna ...
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  • 1848 – February 3, 1889), was a famous American female outlaw. She was a ... In 1883, Belle and Sam were charged with horse theft and tried before ...
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  • him the title of "The Father of American Jurisprudence." Wythe ... and education. He was a greatly renowned American law teacher, whose students ...
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  • The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, and ... speaking Muskogees, and escaped African American slaves, and to a lesser ...
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  • A dreamcatcher is a sacred Native American object that consists of ... mostly due to the loss of much Native American history during European ...
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  • The Nez Perce (autonym: Niimíipu) are Native American people who ... with white settlers, like other Native American tribes they soon found their ...
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  • Tower National Monument, and the Crazy Horse Memorial (the largest sculpture ... Historic figures related to the area include Crazy Horse, Red Cloud ...
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  • * treatment for thrush in horse's hoofs * used to make indelible ... Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast. American Land Classics. Baltimore: ...
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  • 4 ,1973) was a prolific and innovative American sculptor. She was a master ... of 1905 in the gallery of the Society of American Artists. The two sculptors ...
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  • Barn, Elephant House, Animal House, Baggage Horse Barn, Winter Quarters Office ... *Albrecht, Ernest J. The New American Circus. Gainesville: University ...
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  • Paul Revere (December 22, 1734 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith ... of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, a role ...
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  • a male donkey (Equus asinus) and a female horse (Equus caballus), and a hinny ... For example, while different species of the horse family can interbreed, offspring ...
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  • Arthur led him to become a leader of the American Party in Carolina. ... During the American Revolutionary War, Arthur served in the defense ...
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  • to dog meat, and in Europe to wild boar and horse meat, and in Northern Canada ... It was not until a decade later that American scientist Joseph Leidy pinpointed ...
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  • S. Senator from 1880 to 1891. During the American Civil War, Brown, a former ... brother James and his father's plow horse, drove a yoke of oxen 125 ...
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  • family.Shirley Silver and Wick R. Miller, American Indian Languages: Cultural ... The Crow language has one of the larger populations of American Indian ...
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  • quot;Carl Waldman, Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes (New York, NY: Checkmark ... prosperous traders until the expansion of American settlers onto their lands ...
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  • *[http://www.asabe.org American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Official Site] *[http://www.egr.msu.edu/bae/ Department of Biosystems ...
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  • value of breeding the animals, such as in horse breeding. sports purposes, such as raising horses for horse racing or polo. ...
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  • The island was home to a Native American settlement before European ... Island's name derives from a Native American language. Native Americans ...
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  • a Democrat. He took part in the Mexican-American War, becoming a Brigadier ... what was necessary to avoid the impending American Civil War. Pierce's ...
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  • to the first issue was proposed by the American theologian Schubert Ogden ... of the dominant position in modern Anglo-American analytic philosophy: that ...
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  • parallel career with his new back-up band, Crazy Horse. ... them rather than Young’s preferred Crazy Horse band. After their July 18 ...
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  • which was an ancient animal similar to the horse, is pseudoextinct, rather ... four hundred biologists conducted by the American Museum of Natural History ...
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  • when performing sacred tasks. The Native American Lakota sacred Heyoka (clown ... or Slavic folktales, along with Native American/First Nations lore), the ...
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  • countries targeted, neutral at the time, American trade ships. With this ongoing ... the city. The snipers managed to kill the horse ridden by Major General Ross ...
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  • The horse digestive system is somewhat between that of ruminants and ... for storage. Later, haying would be done by horse-drawn implements such as ...
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  • myths associated with the god Odin, and American commercial culture. ... The American version of Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, where ...
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  • quot;]; his teeth were of gold and his horse is called Gold-Top. He dwells ... Saint Michael appears mounted on a white horse, as Heimdall once appeared ...
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  • In 1931, she played the Unknown Woman in the American premiere of ... Returning briefly to Australia she toured American army camps. ...
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  • a centaur is a combination of a man and horse, a minotaur of a man and ... supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a horse, specifically a male griffin ...
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  • tribes in the 1830s and recorded Native American daily life.]] ... could be used to construct a dog- or later horse-pulled travois. Once horses ...
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  • and named many fossils found in the American West. He was the first American ... and those of his workers, which harmed American paleontology, damaged fossil ...
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  • In 1844 he published the History of the American Church. In March of the ... He died July 19, 1873, after falling from his horse. ==Personality== ...
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  • horsemen and cowhands of the South American pampas, chacos or Patagonian ... mystique, much like that of the North American cowboy, exerted a profound ...
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  • of new ceramics, new burial rites, and the horse, the Gandhara grave culture ... Contemporary equestrian terminology, as recorded in a horse-training ...
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  • Many traditions of European and Latin American folklore developed also ... a senior officer (tribune) in the Imperial Horse Guard, a unit of the Roman ...
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  • who negotiated a treaty with the white American settlers. Due to his willingness ... in traditional Apache style. Like Crazy Horse, Cochise was never photographed. ...
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  • similar to domesticated pigs in many ways, American peccaries and Africa's warthogs and bushpigs are also dangerous in captivity. ...
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  • 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist ... ropes at once—one around the neck of a horse, another around the horse ...
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  • Bonney. He was a nineteenth century American frontier outlaw and gunman ... Kid grew into a symbolic figure of the American Old West. ...
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  • *The American bison (Bison bison), the most famous bison, formerly ... There are two extant subspecies of the American bison, the Plains ...
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  • 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American scholar and writer who is ... Among the African-American writers of his time, Ellison stands out ...
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  • as 159 kilograms (350 pounds), and can outrun a horse. Of the living ... mid-sized, fast-running birds. The larger American rhea grows to about 1.5 ...
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  • Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American ... In contrast to Eliot, who gave up his American citizenship to become ...
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  • John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American ... bands, was Sousa's creation. An American icon, Sousa is arguably ...
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  • 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete ... to live off campus with other African American athletes. When he traveled ...
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  • Menger’s share and ours. The living horse adds less than the dead horse ... Professor Macvane"]. Annals of the American Academy of Political and ...
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  • April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As an accomplished ... humanity carries on in the record of the American Red Cross, which she founded. ...
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  • [[Image:Elgin horse 2d.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Parthenon Selene Horse. ]] ... Acropolis Museum, designed by the Swiss-American architect Bernard Tschumi ...
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  • the Confederacy respectively during the American Civil War. While Kentucky ... is also is known for thoroughbred horses, horse racing, bourbon distilleries ...
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  • distributism were popularized through The American Review, published by Seward ... of his epic poem The Ballad of the White Horse he famously states: ...
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  • of Sleipnir [Odin's eight-legged horse which Loki was the mother ... himself as a mare and leading his horse away from the city. In another ...
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  • 1979), nicknamed "Duke," was an American film actor whose career ... In the last decades of his career, Wayne transformed into an American ...
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  • The Comanche people are a Native American group located primarily ... Quanah Parker, a fearless Comanche leader, founded the Native American ...
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  • 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer and explorer ... The expansionists believed that the North American continent, from one end ...
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  • the Father of Modernism in Latin-American literature, predating and ... hung from a tree when he was riding his horse in the countryside. Thus ...
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  • even by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, was completed ... are open to horses. You can bring your own horse and stay at a horse camp ...
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  • S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the ... His grandfather had fought in the American Revolutionary War and his ...
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  • had concluded it. Since the giant's horse had proved to be an invaluable ... by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur. New York: American-Scandinavian foundation, 1916. ...
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  • are often thought of as the archetypal American Indians, riding on horseback ... lists over 150 traditional Native American uses for bison products ...
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  • of many indigenous peoples. (See Native American management of acorn resources.) ... ===Native American management of acorn resources=== Acorns were a traditional ...
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  • in 1838, of the Cherokee Native American tribe to Indian Territory ... Act of 1830, which exchanged Native American land in the East for lands ...
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  • gamble that changed the course of North American history and turned the tide ... odds and the certain destruction of the American colonies' quest for ...
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  • The Cheyenne are a Native American tribe that originally lived in ... The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains. The ...
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  • John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American ... refused to exchange captured African-American soldiers. Booth began devising ...
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  • 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an African-American anthropologist, novelist ... the Harlem Renaissance period in African-American literature, and her anthropological ...
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  • to be his favorite sweet (unfortunately American fans could not get hold ... A turning point in Harrison's career came during an American ...
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  • (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career ... to find work. His parents were English-American Harry Lowe Crosby (1871 ...
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  • in Washington, D.C. The most adept American Neoclassical sculptor was ... traditional standards. The most famous American relief is Mount Rushmore ...
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  • 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and founder of ... Revolution and the Union Army during the American Civil War. ...
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  • en2010/briefs/c2010br-10.pdf The American Indian and Alaska Native ... The Sioux (IPA /su/) are a Native American and First Nations people ...
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  • Horsemen of the Apocalypse, riding a white horse symbolizing one who conquers ... sun to be darkened and allowing hordes of horse-sized locusts to escape. ...
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  • Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American ... Kappa Book Award for Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes, and a Pulitzer Prize ...
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  • , born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American baseball player, beloved ... Gehrig was nicknamed "The Iron Horse" for his durability ...
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  • 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and ... to be tamed, settled and made part of the American dream, where life, liberty ...
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  • These comic operas influenced the later American operettas, such as those ... *Bordman, Gerald. American Operetta. New York: Oxford University Press ...
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