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[319] Dakota Funeral He listeneth to the lark: He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound. Then writeth in a book like any clerk . . . . . . odors of ploughed fields and flowery...

Indian Cattle Bizzness (June 1946)

Indian Cattle Bizzness T. D. Lyons I N I JULY, 19o8, when the Democratic Naional Convention at Denver was drawing to a close, my money began to run short. For the first time m my life I had...

The Wildcatters-Courts and Cabinets-Call the Next Witness (March 1946)

More Books of the Week The Wildcatters. Samuel W. Tait, Jr. Princeton. $3.00. HERE IS a book packed with interesting facts. But Chapter II, entitled "Poor Man's Paradise," was my special delight....

TROLLEY TO TULSA (February 1946)

426 THE COMMONWEAL February 8, 1946 Trolley to Tulsa The Algeresque career of a Baltimore street car motorman T. D. Lyons WHEN I first saw Tulsa in the summer of 1907, it was a town of...

ROXANA (Concluded) (August 1945)

August io, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 401 with others, we free them and ourselves from being creatures of blind custom and chance circumstances. We become masters, molders of our own life. We enrich it...

ROXANA (August 1945)

August 3, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 379 Roxana T. D. LYONS "GREEK: RHOXANE, DERIVED TROM THE AVESTAN, BEING THE LANGUAGE OF THE AVESTA, IN WHICH IT IS SPELLED ROAXSHNA, SIGNIFYING BRILLIANT. IN FRENCH...

MILLIONAIRE WILD-CATTER (May 1945)

114 THE COMMONWEAL May 18, 1945 Millionaire Wild-Catter T. D. LYONS WHEN BILL ROESER took the Keeley cure for debts (bankruptcy) Colonel Newell commented that "An oil wild-catter ought to have...

CHEROKEE BILL (March 1945)

March 23, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 561 Cherokee Bill T. D. LYONS MUSKOGEE, Indian Territory, in July, 1907, was sizzling hot, and to a young lawyer who had taken his sheepskin in Dakota, the...

WILL ROESER (December 1944)

Will Roeser T. D. Lyons "No one seriously contests the statement that if we are to/]nd new oil fields, the daring yambler is more needed than ever before." Paul S. 8tacey, in THE COMMONWEAL,...

OLD SETTLERS' PICNIC (October 1943)

628 THE COMMONWEAL October 15, 1943 Old Settlers' Picnic In Dakota Territory By T. D. Lyons THE YEAR after the "sheep fiasco"...

HOT WINDS IN DAKOTA (July 1943)

Hot Winds in Dakota A bad wheat year and a few sheep By T. D. Lyons ON MARCH 21, in Redstone, we celebrated the advent of official spring by opening up the "flat-house" to begin cleaning...

PUKWANA (August 1943)

612 THE COMMONWEAL April 9, 1943 ization they are compelled to live in, they admit In the meantime, while the full force...

PEMBINA (February 1943)

Pembina "Where the red Missouri bring- eth rich tribute from the...

MAN DAN (December 1942)

164 THE COMMONWEAL December 4, 1942 came finally impossible to refuse. While he did against the unfinished walls. So far, the...

PRAIRIE-CHICKEN'S (September 1942)

Prairie- Chickens Hunting the birds and a conversation. By T. D. Lyons THERE was great excitement in Redstone one blustery April Fool's Day when the Sioux Falls press carried the startling...

DAKOTA HAIL STORM (July 1942)

Dakota Hail Storm A storm blows up. By T. D. Lyons WHEN Theophilus Rencontre and Zephier Brughier, Old Dakoty's cousins from Elk Point, got ready to leave the Big Place to return to Southern...

SUGAR RATIONS IN DAKOTA (June 1942)

cheese, boiled rutabagas, gooseberry pie, and hot coffee—and believe me, I needed a drink of the coffee." That night Olaf called with a long telegram from Will Sterling, at Omaha. Mr. Sterling had...

WEST OF THE RIVER (May 1942)

and he claimed that the word "Missouri" was a French corruption of an Ojibway word which meant, "The Great Lizard that has its tail in the ice and snow, and its mouth in the warm water." This, of...

SCORCHED EARTH IN DAKOTA (March 1942)

good part of the day all year round. This means live-at-home farming with every feasible kind of fruit, vegetable, livestock. He maintains that this kind of husbandry means better living. Farm...

BLACK HILLS FREIGHTER (December 1941)

docet": of course nobody advocates throwing present practices into the ash can (or dust bin, if you happen to live in England). Who said so? I don't know if the present general attitude to-wards the...

"POLITIX" IN DAKOTA (August 1941)

"Politix" in Dakota "When hearts beat hard, and brains, high-blooded, ticked."-The Ring and the Book. By T. D. Lyons WHEN my father brought the wagon train from Burr Oak, Iowa, to Prairie Queen,...

BIG INJUN WAGON-BOX FIGHT (July 1941)

Big Injun Wagon-Box Fight The careers of several western scouts who haven't made Hollywood. By T. D. Lyons WHEN the hunting party from Southern Dakota left the warm ranch kitchen on my father's...

GOING TO COLLEGE (April 1941)

April 18, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 653 By T. D. LYONS THINGS at the Big Place began to break badly for my father, in 1893. The wheat crop was short, and the price low. In 1895, we merely got back our...

EDUCATION IN DAKOTA (March 1941)

536 THE COMMONWEAL March 21, 1941 Education in Dakota Feed and horses and poker were not excluded from the curriculum before the Dakotas became states. By T. D. Lyons DAKOTA TERRITORY had a...

DAKOTA BLIZZARD (December 1940)

December 27, 194o THE COMMONWEAL 251 The beliefs underlying this scheme are not humanitarianism which exalts man as a god. On the contrary, they repose not so much on man's completeness but rather...

PREPAREDNESS-1890 (September 1940)

Prepareaness 1890 The Governor of the Dako a Territory chose guns and am- munition instead of 100,000 rations, and the Sioux were...

LAKE BADUS PARISH (March 1940)

LAKE BADUS was a beautiful small bluewater lake in Dakota Territory named by the Swiss immigrants who homesteaded there in the 70's and 8o's. A Catholic church and priest's house were built in...

Lyons, T.D.

Lyons, Thomas D.

Lysaught, M Therese

Lysaught, M. Therese

Lytle-Vieira, Jane E.