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...Zurich, quarreled with his father, left for the U. S. to make his fortune. In Nebraska he married only to leave his wife because she "refused to build the morning fires, to run through the frosty grass to catch up his team." Locating his homestead at a time when cattlemen were driving off settlers with guns, when mail was held up at the nearest post office for as long as six months, Jules fought with his neighbors, his three succeeding wives, with the law, with fellow-countrymen and friends in his determination to defend his property. While digging a well...
...pacing through the livestock pens at the county fair, bestowing prizes on Indiana's finest cattle. Among the exhibits which filed hopefully past them last week were no cattle but 240 pairs of humans, assembled in Warsaw's fourth annual Twins' Convention. Judging twins, the cattlemen found, was no easy job. Practiced eyes wandered to hoofs and rumps, lingered over well-shaped shoulders. But for Warsaw's twins there was but one standard of judgment: when the judges could not tell one twin from another they pinned duplicate blue ribbons on the pair. From...
...Cattlemen had asked Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 to subsidize beef raisers and dairymen who agreed to curtail production. This made Speaker Rainey snort: "It might prove more effective and far simpler than appropriating these sums for the Government to take over the packing industry and operate it by the Government's paying fixed prices ... if the packers continue to exercise their monopolistic powers to drive down prices. . . . They are interfering with the entire program and stand in open defiance of the entire recovery...
...colonies. . . . Santa Fe now has much in common with Greenwich Village, Carmel, Provincetown and all those other foci of cultural infection which pimple the fair face of our land." The Author had a gun of his own at 9, at 11 began shooting deer, riding range with the cattlemen round his native Albuquerque, N. Mex. After a restless course at two universities he passed his forest ranger's examination, was waiting for an appointment when his father. New Mexico's only Representative, offered him a government job in Washington. After three weeks he quit the service...
Foremost of the cattlemen was the late Col. Charles Goodnight. His first wife-persuaded him to preserve four buffalo calves. The present herd is their progeny...