For years, every fall I looked forward to the Sunday Chicago Tribune Magazine's Fall cover of John T. McCuthcheon's classic "Injun Summer" drawings and words. This was every bit as much as fall to me as those burning leaves, something else that is being taken away from me with all these burning leaves ordinances. Fortunately, here in Spring Grove, Illinois, we can still burn them during October and November, but that probably isn't for long.
Then, because of protests from Indian groups about the strips' insensitivity, the Tribune dropped this annual event.
John T. McCutcheon made the strip for the Chicago Tribune and it first appeared September 30, 1907. I'm not sure when it became an annual event.
McCutcheon was born in Indiana May 6, 1870, and attended Purdue University. He worked for the Chicago Morning News and went to the Tribune in 1903, where he worked until retiring in 1946. He died June 10, 1949.
He won a Pulitzer Prize in cartoons in 1932 and is regarded as the "Dean of American Cartoonists."
You can view "Injun Summer" at http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Chicago/InjunSummer/index.htm
The Chicago Tribune Store has copies for sale for $5.95.
Gotta Get Me One of Those. Thanks John!! --Cooter
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