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...hour. That spurred my decision to move somewhere that has public transportation. I suppose that those who choose to stay in Big Sky country, like Kirn, could follow the example of the Amish and trade their gas-guzzling pickup for an oat-powered team of horses and a buckboard. Forward to the 19th century! Martin Dodge Trego, Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death on the Wing | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...earning only $2 an hour. That spurred my decision to move to a place that has public transportation. If you want to stay in Big Sky country, you might follow the example of the Amish: trade your gas-guzzling pickup for oat-powered horses and a buckboard. Forward to the 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 31, 2005 | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...Central time zone, not without style, just without cynicism. At games in St. Louis, August A. Busch Jr., the octogenarian brewer who owns the Cardinals, was delivered to his box seat each day aboard a beer wagon pulled by eight clomping Clydesdales. Able to be thrilled by a buckboard, the people of St. Louis were also not too sophisticated to sing Hello, Redbirds, Well Hello, Redbirds along with Carol Channing or clap in rhythm every time the organist struck up the Budweiser jingle, incessantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Joy Is Back in Budville | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

While Johnson hovered above the battle, Barry Goldwater plunged right into the thick of it last week with a four-day, 4,350-mile swing through seven Western and Midwestern states. Speaking from a makeshift platform over second base in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, from a mule-drawn buckboard in Sacramento, and from the stump of a 6-ft.-thick Douglas fir in Eugene, Ore., Barry stayed on the offensive with slashing vigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Thick of It | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...wind for all this biffbang and muscling around. In Comancheros the camera discreetly looks the other way whenever he tries to haul himself up the side of a horse. The day is plainly not far off when Wayne will have to trade that pretty palomino for a sensible buckboard, and in the last line of the film the moviemakers wistfully express what millions of moviegoers will undoubtedly feel. As Big John strides resolutely into the sunset, the heroine (Ina Balin) calls after him: "Goodbye. We'll miss you. We've kind of gotten used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wayneing of the West | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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