L. Frank Baum

Descendants of his went to South Dakota (in August 2006) to give an official apology to the descendants of Amerian Indian--mainly Sioux--tribes for newspaper editorials Baum wrote in 1890 justifying the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of Indians by US troops that year and advocating the extermination of all surviving Indians.
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA, section G.
Disliked his first name and preferred to be called by his middle name "Frank".
Hand-set the type of his privately-printed poetry collection, "By the Candelabra's Glare: Some Verse" without a handwritten manuscript.
Designed the chandeliers of the dining hall of the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, CA.

[from an Aberdeen (SD) "Saturday Pioneer" editorial he wrote after the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee] [Wounded Knee] resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers and was "a disgrace to the war department . . . the "Pioneer" has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination [sic] of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.
I shall take the heart . . . for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.
[from an editorial he wrote in the Aberdeen (SD) "Saturday Pioneer" widely considered to have instigated the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee] With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are.

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