Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days Colorado's valleys and pine-clad mountain slopes had echoed the whap-whap of rifles. The big game season was on, and it was Colorado's biggest ever. About 100,000 armed men roamed the fields, hundreds poked their guns through barnyard fences to take pot shots at anything that moved...
Many were experienced huntsmen, but the high price of meat had also attracted fledglings to the field. When the season ended, the bag was the biggest in Colorado's history: 68,000 mule deer, 12,000 elk, 99 bears - along with countless cattle, horses and sheep, 17 dead and 13 wounded hunters...
...Colorado's sportsmen were appalled at the bloodletting. Many ranchers had armed themselves to protect their herds from two-legged raiders more dangerous than mountain lions. Said one rancher: "A house or a barn isn't protection enough any more; you've got to have a concrete pillbox...
...Elsewhere in the election, the wets held fast against major dry attacks. Washington, California and Colorado rejected proposed dry measures. Oregon turned down a plan for sale of liquor by the drink, but Washington adopted...
...Denver, a statewide poll run by Edward Whittlesey, an ex-Gallup student, and William McPhee, an alumnus of the University of Denver National Opinion Research Center, found last June that Truman would win Colorado, as he did. But they got worried when their results disagreed with Gallup's, so they jiggered them for publication in the Denver Post- to show a Dewey victory. Said McPhee: "Whittlesey and I are thinking of going out of business...