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...wish to respectfully point out a slight error (slight, my foot, a very grave error), in reporting the American Legion parade. On p. 15, Oct. 7 issue I quote: "The Nebraskans had a cowhand with a lariat." Since when did a ripsnortin' Wyoming cowpuncher resemble a Nebraskan cowhand...
Unable to obtain an honest-to-God "lariat" in St Louis, Buster Estes, of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Post No. 43, used an ordinary sash cord seldom missed. Madame Schumann-Hemk held her hands up as he approached laughingly said, "No, no, no, no." He obligingly refrained. Many a youngster ran along at his side cried, "Rope me, mister." Most of them were gleefully satisfied...
...grand march last week were the delegations from U. S. possessions and territories. Honor of heading the state contingents went to Arizona for the year's percentage of increased memership. The Floridians marched behind a bathing beauty carrying a stuffed alligator. The Nebraskans had a cowhand with a lariat. Assistant Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring led the Kansans, decked with their native sunflowers. The lowans startled the crowd by parading under a mass of tall cornstalks. The parade was not without its grimmer side. The veterans from Chattanooga, Tenn. marched in the same kind of filthy, ragged uniforms...
...from that repulsive killer. I shouted, a cold yell of horror, and my heart filled my chest and almost suffocated me. For I am afraid of rattlesnakes. Time and again today a rider got down from his horse and bat one to death with the heavy hondo of his lariat. It was a cruel and sinister country, that country of canyons and rocky gulches and rattle-snakes...
...have shot the last Shaggy buffalo on the Western plains. Pre-empted the last free land-Now it is time (I have known it long in my heart} for this country To twist a lariat of us and throw it Over the ocean-to-ocean-flinging land And flip its loop across the lifted, crashing Defiant horns of the wild American spirit And with a twist around the saddle horn Drop it to earth, and on its sprawling hide Burn the clear new-world brand that unto men Shall be a witness of our heritage Wherever that great untamable...