Word: cowhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim for $500. Since then some $381,000,000 in gold has been taken...
...composer can attain an authentically U. S. symphonic style, a spare, gangling, twangy Oklahoman named Roy Harris may well be the man. Born in a log cabin, Roy Harris is as independent as a Panhandle cowhand, as dryly American as the Dust Bowl where he spent his early childhood. When, in 1926, he ap peared in Eastern concert halls with an awkward, homemade symphonic piece un der his arm, critics took one look and de cided that here was music's own Joaquin Miller. Sent to Paris to study with famed Teacher Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb.28, 1938), Composer Harris...