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...Jane remembers it. Pa Fonda used to stomp around the property in sideburns or a beard, achinnin' with the other farmers-John Ford, Jimmy Stewart. John Wayne and so on. All the while, the kids was ferever play-actin', pretendin' they was Buck the Buffalo Herder, or Sheena. Queen of the Jungle. "Sometimes we did improvisations with our governesses.'' recalls young Peter Fonda. "We lived pretty much the same life my father lived on the screen,'' says Jane. ''It was all a big act." The act is bigger than ever. Jane...
...These are men like any other man," says Toolpusher Doug Parker. "They learn quickly and work well." The Eskimos have full acceptance in the two bunkhouses, the mess hall and recreation hut, where "Little Joe" Panuktuluk, 19, is undisputed card-trick and cribbage champ. Formerly a reindeer herder, Panuktuluk aches to go south. He speaks often of the world he has never seen: "The long highways, the buildings with rooms that go up and down, the cows and horses and the people that are too many to count...
...withered old lady stopped an elderly yak-herder on a street in New York City and asked tremulously, "Why aren't you with the yaks?" "Spring," he answered simply. The old lady smiled and continued...
...died of starvation. "It was fearful ... It was absolutely necessary for Russia . . . We took the greatest trouble to explain it to the peasants. It was no use. After you have said all you can to a peasant, he says he must go home and consult his wife and his herder. After he has talked it over with them, he always answers that he does not want the collective farm...
...scene of the original defeat comes the paragon of righteousness, Errol Flynn, a sheep herder whose father was killed in the great battle. Flynn knows the principle, "Thar hain't no reason why sheep and cattle cam't get along together...