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...with mor'n half a million in the bank, and look what we're eatin'." In the bowl were ham hocks and lima beans. Graves had just been paid $505,039.33, one of the biggest checks ever made out to an individual cattleman, for his herd of more than 2,000 catte sold at Denver's livestock market. It was Graves's last roundup and the biggest deal in his big-dealing career...
...never satisfied to work for someone else. He saved enough money to buy a truck, parlayed it into a fleet of seven and sold out for $60,000. With the cash he bought a sheep ranch of his own-and was wiped out when a blizzard killed his herd...
...bank into lending him $100, made a down payment on a cigar store and used it profitably as a front for an illegal liquor business. With the new stake, he got back into sheepherding. When other herders told him it couldn't be done, he moved a herd of 25,000 sheep into Kansas to fatten them up on leased wheatfields. By such tricks he managed to cut his costs enough to weather the depression. Later, he bought 1,800 acres dirt cheap in Colorado, cleaned up when prices rose by selling all but the 280 acres he needed...
...cowboy never knew when the herd would tromp him down...
Wearing a mannish hairdo, Joan Crawford plays the overneat Harriet Craig with sexy emphasis. As her thoroughly housebroken husband, Wendell Corey is careful never to drop ashes on the rugs, sit on the arm of the sofa, or put a damp glass on an end table. Besides riding herd on Corey, Joan bullies her servants, snipes at the inoffensive widow next door, tries to break up K.T. Stevens' romance with William Bishop. Her ineffectual villain'es come to a head when, to prevent her husband's going alone to Japan on business, she defames...