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...much too mean for East Texas. One day he tangled with an older and stronger boy. "I was about ready to holler calf rope when his knife fell out of his pocket. I slammed it into his hip and started for the setting sun." Somewhere west of Jacksboro, Jim stopped running and took his first job as a cowboy: trail hand on a cattle drive to Montana. At 15, he pulled a man's weight on the job, running all night with the stampeding herd and even swimming the notorious Yellowstone River (" Tis such a suck to it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What I Have Saw | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

Literally. In Fort Worth, thieves took $114 from the office of the Jacksboro Drive-In Theater, where the feature show ing was Everything I Have is Yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...Jacksboro, Campbell County Bank, with $29.000 on deposit with Holston-Union, was forced to suspend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Caldwell Crash | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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