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Pawnee runner

Posted by Rod Beemer On May 22, 2013 November 18, 2016 Filed under General 3,223 Comments
Pawnee runner

Frontier scout, Luther North, related a story about the Pawnee scout, Big Hawk Chief, who may well have run the mile faster than anyone either then or now. Here’s the story:

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