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...resident wolves in the big park were exterminated by Government hunters by the late 1920s. That was a time when animals were thought to be good (elk and bison, for instance) or bad. Wolves had been pursued in the West as if they were not merely bad, but evil. Cattlemen lost entire herds to harsh winters, then spent enormous, irrationally large sums of money taking vengeance on wolves. Barry Lopez, in his haunting book Of Wolves and Men, tells of wolves drenched with gasoline and set afire, wolves pulled apart by horses. You can't dismember an April blizzard...
...with Wright. Let him be the Congressman from Fort Worth's 12th District, a place filled with the Texas legends of cattlemen and oilmen and other buccaneers who tamed a wild land. He can still be a hero there if his people choose. But Wright became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. "In power and prestige, the Speaker can be compared only with the President and the Chief Justice of the United States," wrote Neil MacNeil in his book on the House, Forge of Democracy. "He has been the elect of the elect." That is the way Sam Rayburn...
...barb-witted agriculture commissioner. Outside Texas, Hightower is best known for regaling the Democratic National Convention last year with his zingers about George Bush, who he said "was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." Hightower provoked national attention again early this year when he urged cattlemen to grow hormone-free cattle in response to the European Community's ban on U.S. beef...
...hotly controversial figure because of his impassioned attacks on pesticides and corporate agriculture in general. Delegates of the Texas Farm Bureau, a privately supported business group, met in Waco last week for a special session in which they railed against Hightower. They were joined by an array of cattlemen, grain-elevator operators and pesticide makers, who charged that Hightower is pursuing political ambitions instead of looking after the state's farmers. But supporters of small-farm interests rallied just as staunchly to his defense. Said Joe Rankin, president of the Texas Farmers Union: "The entrenched powers feel alienated...
...months ago, when he made the surprise decision to pass up a race for the U.S. Senate against Republican Phil Gramm and instead run for re- election in 1990. Then he promptly spurred a ruckus with his plan to promote hormone-free Texas beef. The proposal angered many cattlemen in part because it would boost feed costs...