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...powerful padres of the Mexican mission system found the first cowboys in their congregations: Indians and Negroes. Barefoot and illiterate, these early vaqueros were often not allowed even to own the horses they rode. North of the border, cowboys were hardly better off; slaves riding mules sometimes tended Louisiana herds. In California, though Franciscans taught Indians to herd steers from the saddle, their problem was that the braves favored the taste of horseflesh over beef. Many sermons were no doubt devoted to God's love of horses as transportation, and his preference for cattle at dinner...
...little something they can take back to Grandma," says Bill Hustead, 54, Ted's son. A Madison, Wis., woman on her way to Wyoming is agape, like most newcomers: "This blows me away. Who'd think there would be something like this, ten miles from a herd of bison...
...Rash's pacing is slack, the lighting is inappropriately murky, and eventually one tires of the endless string of tall stories and short-people jokes. Like Honky Tank Freeway, this movie is in desperate need of an ace farceur like Preston Sturges-and a niggardly accountant to ride herd on ballooning budgets...
Manhar will remain with his surrogate mother until next spring, when he will be weaned and introduced to the rest of the zoo's gaur herd. Jokes Stover: "After all, we don't want him to grow up thinking he is a Holstein...
...birth is the result of some extraordinary modern midwifery by Veterinarian Janet Stover, 29, and her colleagues. To increase the gaur's chances of survival, they picked a likely mother from the zoo's own small gaur herd-its 17 members, including the latest addition, account for about 10% of all the gaurs in captivity. The chosen female was then treated with hormones that stimulated what fertility researchers call superovulation-the release of more than one egg at a time. Finally, last fall they let the animal breed normally with a gaur bull...