Word: buckarooing
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Into the ramshackle office of Banker George S. Nixon in tiny Winnemucca, Nev. around the turn of the century stalked a 6-ft. cowboy named George Wingfield. Not yet 21, Buckaroo Wingfield had just arrived from Arkansas via Oregon, had not a penny. He tossed a diamond ring on the desk, asked for a loan. "I'm not running a hock-shop!" snapped...
...John Hays Hammond. In 1911 he was associated with Herbert Clark Hoover in the successful flotation of unsuccessful Granville Mining Co., formed in London to acquire Yukon placer claims. Two years ago his mining work in Jugoslavia secured him the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Sava. A buckaroo in business, his chief hobby is the collection of old illuminated manuscripts...
...Buckaroo. "With a cast of 60," the billboards announce proudly. That may be the trouble. Getting a cast of 60 on and off the stage is a task in itself. By the time it is accomplished in this play little time is left for the plot...
...competition for the International Military Trophy 18 riders, three for each team, rode 18 horses around the ring. A last minute shift in the U. S. line-up caused 12-year-old Buckaroo, who had hitherto been the best jumper in the show, to be withdrawn for Miss America, who is sometimes better than Buckaroo and sometimes not nearly so good. On this occasion, she was probably not as good as the old horse would have been; she made three faults on one circuit of the ring and the German team won the event with nine faults; Poland...
...sailors, of miners, of lumberjacks, of loggers, of hobos, of prisoners and pick & shovel men, of washerwomen, bandits and railroad gangs. They tell stories, of pioneer memories, of the Mexican border, the "big, brutal cities," the Southern mountains, of five different wars. This one came from a Santa Fe buckaroo, that one from the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mr. Sandburg places them all, gives in his thumbnail introductions vivid pictures of the times and the people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered...