From The Saddle to the White House: Charles Curtis ? The Jockey Who Became Vice President

On January 25, 1860, Charles Curtis was born. His father, Orren, was white, and hismother, Ellen, was a quarter Kaw Indian. Her great grandfather was a Kaw Nation chief whosigned a treaty ceding Kaw tribal land to the United States. Because of that, the Kaw people leftbehind their nomadic ways to become farmers. Charles was left as a small child in the care of his father?s parents until 1865 when hewent to live with his mother?s parents on a Kaw reservation. It was here that little Charles beganriding ponies bareback. By the age of nine, he was riding in organized […]