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A foray into colonial Cuba in late 1904 nearly cost Badger Clark, an early day cowboy poet, an indeterminate amount of time on that islandābut Yankee ingenuity prevailed. After his release from a Cuban jail, but before receiving official permission to leave the island, he absconded on an American steamship and hightailed it back to the United States. From his in-depth exposure to Spanish he brought home a certain familiarity with the language, a skill heād later find useful.
Charles Badger Clark Jr., a future poet laureate of South Dakota, took his first breath on New Yearās Day 1883 in Albia, Iowa. Friends called him Charlie, though he later went by the old family name Badger to alleviate confusion with his father. Charles Badger Clark Sr. was a Union veteran of the Civil War and a Methodist minister. When Badger was still an infant, his family moved to eastern Dakota Territory, where the Rev. Clark established churches and helped found Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell.
Six months after the family moved to Deadwood in 1898 to serve another church, Badgerās mother, Mary, died of tuberculosis; his older brother, Frederick, had succumbed to the disease four years earlier at age 21. Badger and his father ābached itā until 1901, when the Rev. Clark married schoolteacher Anna Morris, who became Badgerās muse.
As a teen Clark attended Dakota Wesleyan for a year but just didnāt take to college. He wanted adventureāand he got more than he bargained for, along with an education he could not have gotten studying books, in Cuba. In December 1903 D.E. Kerr, a real estate investor and promoter operating out of Chicago and Mitchell, S.D., organized a Cuba-bound colonization effort. The linchpin was a land deal of 9,000 acres in CamagĆ¼ey Province with plans to develop a ranch. For home sites Kerr had obtained an additional 100 acres in Nuevitas, 45 miles east on a direct railway line.
Requiem for a Cowboy Poet | HistoryNet
I've never heard of this guy. He has a rather interesting history or rather he was alive during an interesting period of history.
Charles Badger Clark Jr., a future poet laureate of South Dakota, took his first breath on New Yearās Day 1883 in Albia, Iowa. Friends called him Charlie, though he later went by the old family name Badger to alleviate confusion with his father. Charles Badger Clark Sr. was a Union veteran of the Civil War and a Methodist minister. When Badger was still an infant, his family moved to eastern Dakota Territory, where the Rev. Clark established churches and helped found Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell.
Six months after the family moved to Deadwood in 1898 to serve another church, Badgerās mother, Mary, died of tuberculosis; his older brother, Frederick, had succumbed to the disease four years earlier at age 21. Badger and his father ābached itā until 1901, when the Rev. Clark married schoolteacher Anna Morris, who became Badgerās muse.
As a teen Clark attended Dakota Wesleyan for a year but just didnāt take to college. He wanted adventureāand he got more than he bargained for, along with an education he could not have gotten studying books, in Cuba. In December 1903 D.E. Kerr, a real estate investor and promoter operating out of Chicago and Mitchell, S.D., organized a Cuba-bound colonization effort. The linchpin was a land deal of 9,000 acres in CamagĆ¼ey Province with plans to develop a ranch. For home sites Kerr had obtained an additional 100 acres in Nuevitas, 45 miles east on a direct railway line.
Requiem for a Cowboy Poet | HistoryNet
I've never heard of this guy. He has a rather interesting history or rather he was alive during an interesting period of history.