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James A. Michener CENTENNIAL
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CENTENNIAL
James A. Michener
FAWCETT CREST – NEW YORK
James A. Michener CENTENNIAL
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CENTENNIAL
Published by Fawcett Crest Books, a unit of CBS Publications,
the Consumer Publishing Division of CBS Inc.,
by arrangement with Random House, Inc.
Copyright © 1974 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce
this book or portions thereof in any form.
ISBN: 0-449-23494-0
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance
to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Lyrics from “The Buffalo Skinners” on pages 1023 & 1024, collected, adapted and arranged by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, TRO— ©
Copyright 1934 and renewed 1962 LUDLOW MUSIC, INC., New York, N.Y. Used by permission.
Cover Art Copyright © 1978—MCA Publishing, a division of MCA Inc.
Selection of the Book-Of-the-Month Club
Selection of the Reader’s Digest Condensed Books
Selection of the Playboy Book Club
Printed in the United States of America.
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To
Three distinguished Colorado newspapermen:
Floyd Merrill of Greeley,
who showed me the rivers;
Otto Unfug of Sterling,
who taught me about cattle;
Clyde Stanley of Keota,
who introduced me to the prairie.
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Acknowledgments
This novel deals with a subject that has concerned me since 1936, when I first
came to know the South Platte River. Writing it has been one of the happiest
experiences of my life. for it put me in contact with many learned and perceptive
people. Among the many to whom I am indebted are these specialists:
Geology: Roger Cuffey and Lauren Wright, Pennsylvania State University; the
latter took me on an extended field trip of the Rockies; Gerald Richmond, William
Mallory, U. S. Geological Survey; Jack Murphy, Denver Museum of Natural
History, who took me on a field trip to dinosaur deposits, Robert Egbert, Phillips
Petroleum, who provided preliminary data for the core diagram of Centennial; and
especially Ogden Tweto, U.S.G.S., foremost authority on the Rockies, who
provided line-by-line checking of the text and the core diagram.
Paleontology: G. Edward Lewis, U.S.G.S.; Don Lindsay, D.M.N.H.; Bertrand
Schultz, Mylan Stout, University of Nebraska; G. E. Untermann, Vernal, Utah;
Tobe Wilkins, Dinosaur National Monument; Kay McElroy, Greeley, who took me
on a field trip to Pawnee Buttes.
Early Man: Frank Frazier, Denver; George Frison, University of Wyoming, who
took me on an extended field trip to prehistoric Clovis sites; H. M. Wormington,
Denver, who allowed me to read the manuscript of her forthcoming book.
Flint Knapping: Don Crabtree, Kimberley, Idaho; H. M. Wormington, Denver;
Bruce Bradley, Cambridge, England, who made a Clovis point for me.
Indian Life: Virginia Trenholm, Cheyenne; Evelyn Nickeson, Kinnear; Nellie
Scott, Fort Washakie; Father Lewis O’Neill, S.J., Stephens; Reverend David
Duncombe, Ethete, all of Wyoming.
Early St. Louis: John Francis McDermott, University of Southern Illinois; Mrs.
Odile Trufanow, Denver; George Brooks, Frances Stader, Missouri Historical
Society; and Ernest Kirschten, all of St. Louis.
Old Lancaster: Laura Lundgren, S. E. Dyke, John Ward Willson Loose, Lancaster
County Historical Society.
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Oregon Trail: Merrill J. Mattes, National Park Service; Gregory M. Franzwa, St.
Louis.
Fort Laramie: Charles Sharp, Lewis Eaton, Bill Henry, all of Fort Laramie, who
showed the most devoted patience in helping on research and field trips; Roger
Kent Heape, Belleville, Illinois, who allowed me to read his unpublished thesis on
the Treaty of 1851.
Cattle Trails: C. Boone McClure, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon,
Texas; Dean Krakel, Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Laura Peacock,
Jacksboro, Texas; Jessie Newton Yarborough, Robert Lee, Texas.
Ranch Life: Farrington Carpenter, Hayden, Colorado; Allen Fordyce, Big Horn;
Burrell Nickeson, Kinnear, both of Wyoming. The following graciously allowed
me to visit their ranches and ask many questions: J. J. Gibson, 6666 Ranch,
Guthrie, Texas; Herman Werner, Van Irvine, Casper; Robert and Martha Gibbs,
TY Ranch, Arvada, all of Wyoming; and especially Ronald and Virginia Wolff,
Two Bar Ranch, Wheatland, Wyoming, who flew me to various historic sites in
their ranch plane.
Sugar Beets: Lyman Andrews, William M. White, Denver, Colorado.
Birds: Gustav Swanson, C.S.U., who took me on a beautiful exploration of the
Buttes area.
Denver Stock Show: Willard Simms, Denver; C. W. Ferguson, Miami.
Mexican-Chicano Problems: Corky Gonzales, Bernard Valdez, Jim Kent, Minoru
Yasui, Denver; Diputado Abelardo Perez Campos, Francisco Almada, Chihuahua,
Mexico, the former having shown me extraordinary courtesy; Susan Sellers,
Mexico City, who provided much help on Chicano songs.
Dryland Farming: Isabel Blair, James Reed, Dora Good, all of Sterling, Colorado,
the last of whom took me on an extensive field trip to an old line camp.
Cattle Industry: Larry Yarrington, Sterling, Colorado, who gave me a graduate
seminar on artificial insemination; Tom Risinger, Jack Winninger, Cody,
Wyoming, who introduced me to Simmentals; Russell Staats, Chugwater,
Wyoming, custodian of the great Swan Land Cattle Company operation; Joe
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Gloyd, Frank Robertson, Wheatland, Wyoming; Gene Gressley, University of
Wyoming; Bill Wadlow, Wyoming Hereford Ranch, Cheyenne.
Guns: Dabney Otis Collins, Ross Miller, Frank M. Sellers, Denver, the last-named
being the world’s authority on the Sharps rifle; Vernon Gunnion, Lancaster, expert
on Melchior Fordney rifles.
Railroads: Ed Haley, Denver; Bob Richardson, Colorado Railroad Museum,
Golden, Colorado.
Irrigation: Felix Sparks, Denver; John W. Nelson, Loveland, Colorado; John E.
Moore, U.S.G.S.; Glen G. Saunders, Denver, Colorado; E. V. Richardson and
Harvey Johnson, Fort Collins, Colorado, who took me on a thrilling field trip to the
irrigation canals in the highest Rockies.
Appaloosas: Ed Roberts, Denver; George B. Hatley, Moscow, Idaho.
My thanks also go to Katherine Halverson, Bill Williams and John Cornelison of
the Wyoming State Museum and Archives; Randolph Wagner, Wyoming Travel
Commission, who showed me his excellent movie on the Oregon Trail; Tony
Bevinetto and Charles McCurdy, Grand Teton National Park; Harold McCracken,
Whitney Gallery of Western Art at Cody; the Western Pennsylvania Historical
Society; Nebraska State Historical Society; Union Pacific Railroad Museum; and
to Tom Ten Eyck of Denver, who took me on field trips to study ecology.
No city could have been more pleasant to work in than Denver, except for repeated
traffic tickets, the worst winter in 170 years, the hottest summer in 87, and the
nation’s most galling gas shortage. Alys Freeze, Western Collection, Denver
Public Library, provided invaluable help and so did the entire staff of that
estimable institution.
A group of wise and dedicated scholars read segments to help me avoid gross
error: Geology: Wright, Cuffey, Tweto, Schumm; Inhabitants: Lewis, Schultz,
Stout; Early Man: Wormington, Crabtree, Bradley; Indians: Trenholm, Oregon
Trail: Mattes, Franzwa; Trappers: McDermott; Fort Laramie: Heape; Cattle Trail:
McClure; Hunters: Sellers; Sugar Beets: Andrews; Irrigation: Moore. They must
not be charged with such error as has persisted, because in certain instances I
decided to stay with my own interpretations.
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During my research I was aided at different and crucial times by two gifted
members of the Reader’s Digest staff: Leslie Laird, who had earlier helped me on
my book on Kent State, and John Kings, who had for some years been a rancher in
Wyoming. Tessa Dalton provided much expert guidance on wildlife. These three
accompanied me on extensive field trips to Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,
Nevada, California, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Missouri. All three were good drivers, amiable storytellers and
opposed to smoking.
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Contents
Acknowledgments......................................................................................................6
Contents....................................................................................................................10
Chapter 1 ..................................................................................................................13
THE COMMISSION............................................................................................13
Chapter 2 ..................................................................................................................34
THE LAND ..........................................................................................................34
Chapter 3 ..................................................................................................................54
THE INHABITANTS...........................................................................................54
Chapter 4 ............................................................................................................... 111
THE MANY COUPS OF LAME BEAVER..................................................... 111
1. Old Man Staked Out .................................................................................. 120
2. Three Against Three Hundred.................................................................... 124
3. Visit to the Sun........................................................................................... 131
4. Death of Never-Death ................................................................................ 141
5. Nine Horses Lost........................................................................................ 146
6. New Poles for the Tipi ............................................................................... 149
7. Invading the Camp of Strange Gods.......................................................... 154
8. Two Gold Bullets ....................................................................................... 157
Chapter 5 ............................................................................................................... 170
THE YELLOW APRON ................................................................................... 170
Chapter 6 ............................................................................................................... 239
THE WAGON AND THE ELEPHANT........................................................... 239
Chapter 7 ............................................................................................................... 342
THE MASSACRE............................................................................................. 342
Chapter 8 ............................................................................................................... 417
THE COWBOYS .............................................................................................. 417
Chapter 9 ............................................................................................................... 486
THE HUNTERS ................................................................................................ 486
Chapter 10 ............................................................................................................. 540
A SMELL OF SHEEP....................................................................................... 540
Chapter 11 ............................................................................................................. 615
THE CRIME...................................................................................................... 615
Chapter 12 ............................................................................................................. 652
CENTRAL BEET.............................................................................................. 652
Chapter 13 ............................................................................................................. 707
DRYLANDS ..................................................................................................... 707
摘要：

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