Fifteen Western Tales, January 1953 — page 63: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE MEDICINE WIRE By BENNETT FOSTER Andy Curtis was one of the quiet, unsung heroes of the _ frontier, where fighting off marauding Sioux and fixing the talking wire, so that a message of peace could inspire the world, was all in the day’s work! Andy Curtis rode the line of poles, looking at the wires. Rifles boomed in the rocks.... HERE was a sharp wind blowing when the three Minneconjou Sioux came down the slope of Crying Wom- an butte into the valley of the Platte. They argued with each other as they rode south toward the telegraph line. | | “Tt is a medicine wire,” Fights His Horses declared. “It carries messages for the white 463 NOOLKS CONMIG C©