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...sweeps along, the Missouri gathers the waters of one tributary after another: the Sun, Teton, Judith, Marias, Musselshell, Milk, Yellowstone (fed, in turn, by the Bighorn, Greybull, Shoshone, Tongue and Powder), the Little Missouri, Knife, Heart, Cannonball, Grand, Moreau, Belle Fourche, Cheyenne, Bad, White, Big Sioux, James, Niobrara, Elkhorn, Platte, Little Sioux, Nishnabotna, Kansas (made up of the Republican, Solomon, Saline, Smoky Hill and Blue), the Grand, Chariton, Osage and Gasconade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri Valley: LAND OF THE BIG MUDDY | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...favorite-players happy. On the other side of town are the two Whitney farms, impressive examples of well-heeled private operations which have been family-owned for generations. Adjoining them is Elmendorf Farm, an important breeding establishment since 1871. Sprawling over 500 hilly acres, through woods and along North Elkhorn Creek, the present-day Elmendorf is the heart of what was once a vast 9,800-acre tract owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, fabulous copper baron. A farm of such scope could not exist in tax-ridden 1952, but most Lexington breeders are content to stress quality-and hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLUEGRASS IN BLOOM: BLUEGRASS IN BLOOM | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...quipped, in 1870, that frock-coated John Insley Blair built railroads to use steel from his mills, towns to provide traffic for his railroads. One of the great railroad barons, he helped found the Chicago & North Western, the Lackawanna and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri. In 1890, at 88, he capped his great career by founding the famed banking firm of Blair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Street's Streat | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

TIME which records all significant things will be interested to know that Thomas R. Amlie of Elkhorn, Wis., candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Progressive ticket, is using sound films in connection with his speaking campaign. In one of the pictures, The River, he demonstrates what the cutting over of forest lands has meant to the Mississippi Valley in the way of worn-out land, eroded top soil and ever recurrent floods. In the other film, The Plow that Broke the Plains, the tragic story of the Dust Bowl is developed; Amlie outlines what has been and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...through the roof of a house. The entire boiler sailed up into the air and crashed down through the roof of the first coach. When the steam cleared, dead & dying lay sprawled in all directions. Com-pany officials said the boiler had seemed satisfactory when inspected last summer. Elkhorn-Piney Coal's score: dead, 16; injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wrecks | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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