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...defense lawyer's basic argument was that the government was unfairly trying to apply 20th century law to the llaneros, a swashbuckling and primitive breed of cowhand, whose lives and attitudes have changed little since the days of Simón Bolívar. Besides, the lawyer argued, others had done the same thing and gone unpunished on the llanos, "where the law that counts is that of the fastest." The defense claimed that on one occasion, the local DAS, the police force modeled on the Texas Rangers, helped kill 17 Indians accused of rustling cattle. One witness...
...named Kermit but called "boy"-has the unsparing, unsentimental eye of his age. He can see that Uncle Floyd, though he may sometimes look like a picturesque cowhand from a TV serial and sometimes (with that yellow helmet) like a bug, is really a stupid, selfish, kindly old man. When a telegram announces the death of Aunt Viola in Nebraska, old man and boy take off in the trailer, precariously hitched to an ancient Maxwell. On their way to the home place by the Platte River, they pick up two oligosyllabic polycopulative young people named Stanley...
...along with the globe-girdling pilot, Wiley Post. In the nostalgia of Whitmore's performance, it is refreshing to be reminded of a time when a man who had amassed millions could scuff his toes at success and say quite simply, "Shucks, I was just an old cowhand that had a bit of luck...
...They are fine heifers-deep-bodied, fine animals. They are the product of Santa Gertrudis heifers bred to Hereford bulls-a fine combination." A young Mexican cowhand drove the cattle from atop a ponylike animal. "It's not a pony at all. It's a Galiceno horse, a direct descendant of the horses the Spaniards brought from Europe. They've got the lines of a thoroughbred in miniature. Look...
...grass are more valuable." Said Lady Bird: "You are both the victim and the friend of nature. It is something to see Lyndon in combat with the land. The land is unrelenting. He is unrelenting." Johnson mounted a frisky filly and helped cut calves from the herd. An old cowhand, watching, said: "That fella's been in the saddle afore." Just then the pony skittered, Lyndon lost a stirrup and grabbed for the pommel. The old fellow added with a twinkle: ". . . but not fer some time...