Word: cowmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold and so much energy that when he died he left ten children and more land than almost anyone in the U. S. Only cattle he owned were 453 head, acquired for a debt, which he put on an island and forgot. When their unbranded offspring wandered ashore, cowmen would whoop, "There's a Maverick!" and rope...
Bronco riding was the big event and an outlaw horse of the meanest breed was Five Minutes to Midnight. Earl Thode of Belvidere, S. Dak. won the most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites...
...Sept. 30, 1929; March 24). But at his homecoming his friends and managers did not leave his fame to chance. To build him into a sure-fire vaudeville attraction, they arranged an impression ballyhoo. In a noisy motorcade, gawked at by many a bystander, surrounded by sombreroed U. S. cowmen, preceded by a brass band, he rode to City Hall where Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee of New York declared : "The city is very proud of you!" Into talking-cinema microphones Hero Franklin spoke English: "Give me the good old American girl," and Spanish: "Commend me to the charming senoritas...
Alkali was a boom town, law & order had not yet descended on it. The sheriff was in cahoots with the unruly cowmen, and the decent shopkeeping and professional element of the town looked to the Johnson gang to keep order. Wayt Johnson, head of the clan, had a reputation for action, but he was trying hard to be law-abiding, he wanted to be elected sheriff. With his brothers Luther and Jim, his henchmen Brant White and Deadwood, he overawed many a would-be bad man, kept the peace in spite of tantalizing taunts. Even when they called him "Saint...