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Buffalo Hunt. The site of Matador's main ranch in the Panhandle between Fort Worth and Amarillo was a buffalo hunters' camp when Henry ("Paint") Campbell, an old trail driver, bought the land in 1878. Within four years, he expanded the ranch to 1,500,000 acres and 40,000 head of cattle, sold out to a Scottish syndicate for $1,250,000. As Matador's manager, the new owners later chose Murdo Mackenzie, a strapping (6 ft. I in.) Scotsman who became a legendary figure in the West. Old Murdo never carried...
...throttle-busting flyer, Quesada won his wings in 1925, studied engineering, learned to pilot every plane from wasplike pursuits to lumbering amphibians. At the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., he concluded from a year's study that close air support of ground troops is the key to modern...
...hundred and fifty years is a ripe age for a midwestern city. For almost 200 of those years, Detroit slumbered. First a fort, then a town, by 1896 it was a contented city of 285,000 which brewed a little beer, made a few families wealthy through lumbering and mining, turned out carriages and stoves and let its arteries harden in dignity. But beer and dignity were not its destiny. Charles Brady King chugged down a street in a horseless carriage. Three months later came Henry Ford in another ugly contraption. A young inventor named Ransom E. Olds scraped...
...Reporter Bob Beason went into the water and waded and swam from building to building to assess damage. Reporter Bill Blair and Photographer Bob Youker persuaded a passing Army amphibious truck to ferry them about, were arrested for their enterprise; their soldier-chauffeur and truck were AWOL from Fort Leavenworth...
...overflowing, the nearby towns small, and housing scarce, the chiselers are out. So reported the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, headed by Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson, this week, after inspecting more than 20 such localities. They issued a first report on three of them: Camp Breckinridge, Ky., Camp Rucker, Ala., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Camp Rucker and Fort Leonard Wood were bad enough, but Camp Breckinridge took all prizes: CJ An old doll house, built by a widow for her daughter, was the home of a sergeant, his wife, mother-in-law and three children. The house is 14 ft. wide...