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Mathers decided in 1951 that the Texas Panhandle, where he grew up, was too crowded and expensive for cattlemen. He headed north "for cheap grass," to the border of Rosebud and Custer counties, just above Miles City, Mont. Mathers did not trail a herd a thousand miles across the powdery...
Situated on Alaska's North Slope just west of the Canadian border, the 19 million-acre refuge is home to several hundred Eskimos, grizzlies, musk-oxen, wolves, migratory birds and a herd of 180,000 caribou, whose majestic spring migration has inspired naturalists to call the preserve "America's Serengeti...
"So often when America builds a monument, it's to one great individual, " says American University history professor Alan Kraut, who was an adviser on the project. "What is so special about Ellis Island is it really is a monument to the masses." The chief monument is the main building...
White Oak is a 7,500-acre estate along the St. Marys River, which separates part of Georgia and Florida. Presided over by Howard Gilman, who owns the Gilman Paper Co., this preserve -- part breeding farm for endangered animals, part Thoroughbred stables -- could be described as either utopian or feudal...
Christie Trexel, 26, who sells Cameo lingerie at home parties, was at a weekend sales convention in Dallas when she got word to hurry home to Cherokee, Iowa. Last Tuesday she and her husband Donald, 39, called their five-year-old son Joe in Omaha to tell him that he...