Character
Lewis R. Freeman, a journalist, adventurer, movie-maker, and football coach, came to know Armstrong well in 1920 during a boat trip down the Columbia. Freeman described Armstrong, and as "one of the most picturesque personalities in the pioneering history of British Columbia":
| “ | Short, compact, but cleanly-built, with iron-gray hair, determined jaw, and black piercing eyes, he has been well characterized as "the biggest little man on the upper Columbia". Although he confessed to sixty-three years he might well have passed for fifty ... . | ” |
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