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...Kiowa and Comanche, or ford the snake-infested Nueces River. Instead, he put 200 Herefords on the Santa Fe Railroad, climbed into his blue Oldsmobile and rolled smoothly up Highway 83. He was there in two days. (Lonesome Dove's McCrae and Call took months.) Mathers bought up old homestead land for $5 to $8 an acre, quit trying to plow and plant wheat and barley, and gently coaxed back the grass, which now ruffles in the restless wind, somehow surviving where the nation has its coldest winters and hottest summers...
Mathers estimates that at one time there were between 125 and 150 homestead families on his 50,000-acre spread, each trying to live with a few cows and sheep and harboring vain hopes that crops that sprout so effortlessly in Illinois would do the same in semiarid Montana, which gets less than 15 in. of rain annually. They are all gone now, tiny homes fallen in, schoolhouses vanished, everything blown away by the same winds that lofted the sandy soil as far as the Atlantic seaboard in the 1930s. A few of the homestead titles are held by descendants...
Secretary of State JAMES BAKER is on his Wyoming homestead but is spending most of his time on the phone with foreign leaders...
Some delinquent borrowers have tried to seek refuge behind Texas' homestead law, which shelters a debtor's home from hungry creditors. But Pankau nailed one scamp after he used proceeds from a commercial loan to hide $1 million in a River Oaks mansion. "If it's out there, we're going to find it," he insists. "The money all went into somebody's hands. It didn't go up in smoke...
...bust came only three days before Barry had planned to announce his candidacy for an unprecedented fourth term. At about 8 p.m. on Jan. 18, shortly after he picked the winners in a homestead auction, Barry waltzed into Room 727 of the Vista International Hotel, just six blocks from the White House. It is also only two blocks from another Washington hotel, where 13 months ago police mysteriously aborted a planned arrest of Charles Lewis, a suspected drug dealer, when they learned that Barry was in his room...