Word: cowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were scuffed and patched; the brown leather chaps over his faded Levi's had seen better days. But he had the casual swagger of a champ. He ran a cool eye over Gold Dollar, a mean-looking palomino, and climbed aboard. Outside the chute, San Francisco's Cow Palace echoed to the voice of the announcer: "The first three-time all-around cowboy champion in history-Jim Shoulders...
...Trenton and wintered at Valley Forge. John James Audubon killed birds in the wilderness not only for models but also to feed his children. Frederic Remington actually rode the Wild West as ranch hand, cook and cavalryman. Grant Wood said that all his best ideas "came while milking a cow...
...child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly at a small tortilla that will be his only supper. The heart of the Indian fills with dread. If he cannot make some money soon, they will all starve. If only he had a cow, he could sell the milk...
Angrily the Indian refuses, but his wife decides to go. She puts the baby in her husband's arms. "Now," she says softly, "you have a cow." The Roots, for seriousness and intensity of feeling, is possibly the strongest motion picture that has been made in Mexico since Luis Buñuel turned out Los Olvidados, and The Cows is clearly the strongest of the film's four episodes. It has the strength of righteous anger, but it has anger's weakness, too. It overstates its case. The Mexican Indian is often poor, but in the villages...
Arkansas, part delta and part mountain, part magnolia and part moonshine, where a horse is a "critter" and a heifer is a "cow brute," is given to such place names as Loafer's Glory, Bug Tussle, Hell for Sartain, Hog Scald, Nellie's Apron-and, perhaps most remote of them all, Greasy Creek in the Ozark forests of the northwest, where Orval Faubus was born 47 years ago in a candlelighted cabin...