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Cunning as well as courageous, the stallions kept plenty of grass between manada and man, but during the 1850s the mustangers multiplied, and the odds in favor of the animals were disastrously reduced, Some were roped, some stampeded into pens, some "walked down" by patient riders who followed the herd for a week or two and imperceptibly and gradually assumed control of its movements...
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ann Blyth stars as a Chinese empress stranded in Panama in the 1850s and pursued by a general who wants to kill her son. Color...
Vast Confusion. The Handel and Haydn Society was the outgrowth of a chorus assembled in 1815 for a Peace Jubilee celebrating the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, word of which took 52 days to reach Boston. The society grew rapidly, until by the late 1850s it was more than 700 voices strong. Not a historical event passed in old Boston that the society did not commemorate with a concert, featuring such speakers as Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...when the 1789 Judiciary Act created the 13 original federal district courts, it also provided for 13 marshals to carry out court orders. Appointed by the President, those marshals were at first responsible for everything from census taking to courts-martial and taking custody of prize vessels. In the 1850s they chased fugitive slaves all over the North, much as they personally loathed that part of their job. Put under the Attorney General in 1861, they took such risks in taming the wild West that the Justice Department was soon fretting that "no other occupation is so dangerous...
...world's greatest (and some of us knew that this would happen with Szell at the helm) was as exciting an experience in prospect as joining a wagon train going to the Oregon country, or taking the Santa Fe Trail to the gold fields of California during the 1850s...