The Pittsburgh Press (September 12, 1944)
Indians, cowboys welcome Dewey
Valentine, Nebraska (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey was greeted by Indians in feathered headdress and cowboys on horseback when he arrived here today for conferences with Nebraska and South Dakota Republicans at the ranch of former Nebraska Governor Samuel R. McKelvie.
The GOP presidential nominee and Mrs. Dewey stepped from the train into an open auto for a parade led by about 50 Sioux Indians from the Rosebud Reservation of South Dakota, followed by sombrero-wearing cowboys from the Nebraska plains.
The parade lasted half an hour and then the Deweys were taken to the McKelvie ranch, 20 miles south of Valentine.
Shortly before the Dewey party arrived here, the Governor’s secretary, Paul E. Lockwood, announce that additional stops would be made at Sheridan, Wyoming, Sept. 14, and Billing, Montana, Sept. 15 so Mr. Dewey might have the opportunity to meet local political leaders in those two states. Governor Dewey had planned to spend three days at the McKelvie Ranch, but his stay here was cut to a day and a half to work the other stops into his itinerary to the West Coast.