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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did Albert Bacon Fall, broken in health and reputation, at last start for the New Mexico State penitentiary at Santa Fe accompanied by his granddaughter Martha and followed by his grieving wife. The night was spent at what was once his great ranch at Three Rivers. Two days later the erstwhile Secretary of the Interior entered the grim grey institution at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo range to pay the penalty for taking a $100,000 bribe from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny almost ten years...
...Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, International Paper. Shredded Wheat, Tidewater Oil, Black Diamond Coal, Seaboard Air Line, et al. His daughter became the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. His son Ogden collected works of art, married Ruth Livingston, great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston whose statue New York put into the U. S. Capitol...
...terminus called "Turpin." Two years later the B. M. & E. went farther west to Hooker where it crossed the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific tracks, then on to Hough. This gave it 65 mi. of track. Last year it pressed on another 40 mi. to reach the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe tracks at Keyes...
...lived 16 years in the California desert, working like an Indian woman, studying their lore. In 1891 she married Stafford W. Austin. When her only child died she began to write. For a time she was one of the Carmel, Calif, literary colony, then built a house at Santa Fe, N. M. Between literary jobs she goes on what she calls "jam-borees," makes enormous quantities of jam, jellies, pickles for herself & friends. Her flower-garden is famed. Other books: Isidro, A Woman of Genius, No. 26 Jayne Street, The American Rhythm...
...Erskine Brooks, a poor Baptist preacher, taught school and farmed, sometimes drove 50 miles to Dallas to get a dollar's worth of kerosene so that his family could read and study at night. Young Samuel worked on the farm, hauled wood, became a section hand on the Santa Fe Railroad, taught school. He entered Baylor in 1887, worked and studied alternately until he was graduated in 1893. One year his roommate was Pat Morris Neff who became Governor of Texas in 1921. Taking his M.A. at Yale in 1902, Samuel Brooks returned immediately to become president of Baylor University...