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Nobody does the cowboy blarney better than Larry McMurtry, elegist of the old Southwest and observer of the new culture in the Sunbelt, where the air conditioner is king. Yet his novels are not nearly as well known as the movies made from them. Horseman, Pass By is more recognizable as Hud. The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment have had far more viewers than readers. Lonesome Dove, McMurtry's tenth novel, is probably stampeding toward the screen at this moment. But first things first...
...live in a time when academic skills and orientation confer an advantage. In other times, other skills i.e. hunter, horseman, archer, etc, were more valuable[sic]. High academic achievers must realize, however, that they are in the minority in this country and certainly in the world as it is currently structured. Those of us with education can either put down our fellow man or reach down to insure that each has an opportunity to fulfill his destiny...
...blue uniforms advanced, officers swung their clubs. The marchers retreated under the assault, many falling. The troopers, joined eagerly by Clark's redneck posse, pushed on amid clouds of tear gas. Charging on horseback, someof the men swung bullwhips at the fallen and fleeing marchers. "O.K., nigger," yelled one horseman as he flailed his whip at a woman. "You wanted to march. Now march...
...prairie never rests for long, nor does it permit anything else to rest," wrote John Madson in his book Where the Sky Began, an eloquent evocation of the changing heartland and its people. "Those first Europeans had no basis for even imagining wild fields through which a horseman might ride westward for a month or more." The land enlarged their spirits and made them prosper...
...path between the two warring religions, drawing followers from both, when he created Sikhism in Punjab at the end of the 15th century. Two centuries later, however, Guru Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people being persecuted by Mogul warlords, Gobind formed a fierce fraternity of "warriors of God" known as the Khalsa (Pure...