Word: cattleman
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...Colorado wears a bigger Stetson or higher heels on his cowboy boots than Governor Dan Thornton, a wealthy, Texas-born cattleman who became the Republicans' last-minute candidate after the regular nominee died in mid-campaign. Even after he was safely ensconced in the state capitol in citified Denver, Thornton continued to wear the cowboy costume in which he successfully stumped the state. He often made photographers wait for pictures while he found an old brier pipe, which he never smokes but likes to wear clamped between his teeth...
...Cattleman Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' 920,000 acre King Ranch, is proudest of his development of the Santa Gertrudis breed,* the hardiest and heaviest all-grass-fed cattle in the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947). Kleberg always kept most of his prize Santa Gertrudis bulls for the King Ranch, but other cattlemen sought them so avidly that each year he obligingly sold a few, at a standard price of $350. The waiting list grew so big that Bob Kleberg (rhymes with hay-burg) decided to try an experiment...
...April 25, 1949). Later, he visited Southwestern ranches and Midwestern stock farms, spent a solid week on the killing floor at Swift & Co.'s Chicago stockyards. The resulting pictures struck Texans as not only good but mighty authentic. Looking at a Lea branding scene last week, one grizzled cattleman remarked: "You can smell the smoke from the burned hair...
...called Samuel A. Maverick a cattleman [TIME, Sept. 4]. He was an attorney. Maverick moved his law office from Pendleton, S.C. to Texas sometime after 1830. He accepted 600 head of cattle as an attorney's fee, and from this number hoped to breed a much larger herd. His unbranded yearlings fell into the hands of other cattlemen who promptly placed their brands on the cattle. After ten discouraging years Maverick sold his depleted stock for the amount of the original...
...Reader Anderson is right. Says A Dictionary of Western Words: "Maverick . . . was ... a lawyer and one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence (1836). He never made any claims to being a cattleman. In fact, his ignorance regarding cattle was responsible for his leaving such a colorful addition to our language...