Word: gulch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Slim Pickens, 64, grizzled actor with a gulch-wide twang who played second-banana Hollywood cowpokes in westerns including One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those...
...station: "There'll be a boom again. You just wait till gasoline goes up a few more cents a gallon. Oh hell yes, they'll be back." Local people still hope that Parachute and Battlement Mesa will not become ghost towns like Silver City and Russell Gulch, which prospered only briefly during Colorado's gold and silver rushes...
...mountain search team recovered the body of Ann G. Renfrew '82 in Five Finger Gulch on the mountain's south face...
They have names like Charlie Horse, Chaps. Mr. McNasty's, Outlaws. Cody's, Dallas, Lone Star Cafe, San Antone Rose.'Silver Saddle, Gopher Gulch and Wild Wild West. The sound of their music is country, and the cut of their outfit is cowboy. Country-and-western nightclubs are riding high. In towns and cities from New Paltz, N.Y., to Carmichael, Calif., and North to South, there are now countless sagebrush saloons, corralling urban buckaroos with lively rustic dancing, good ole buddydom and a frontier atmosphere that may owe more to hype than history but is infectious nonetheless...
Today the gulch is flowering. Among the other conservative publications enjoying a new legitimacy...