Word: llanos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utter foolishness, nothing quite matches the practical joke that backfired tragically on a 25-year-old Dallas lad last month. While waiting for his three hunting companions to return to their campsite near Llano, Texas, he got a sudden inspiration. He hid in a clump of heavy brush along the trail leading to the camp; when his friends drew alongside, he made snarling noises and shook the bushes violently. The charade worked perfectly. Convinced that they were about to be attacked by a mountain lion, the three hunters opened fire, and killed him on the spot...
...Judge is also at home on water. Once Lyndon developed a craving for a cruise up the narrow, treacherous Llano River on a winter night so pitch-dark that Moursund stepped right off the end of the pier into hip-deep water. Yet A. W. took the wheel of the cruiser, while Lyndon unconcernedly ate shrimp in the cabin below. Said Johnson: "He'll get us there. I wouldn't trust anybody else...
...ranches, now part of the Johnson trust, are jointly owned by Johnson and Moursund. Acquired in 1961 and 1962, they are the 2,186-acre Three Springs Ranch along the Pedernales in Blanco County and the 4,500-acre Haywood Ranch in the lake region of nearby Llano County. They consist chiefly of pastureland on which cattle, sheep and Angora goats thrive. Moursund explains his interest in such land acquisition with typical understatement. Says he: "The more little places you have, the better...
...recent years, Brazos-Tenth has acquired about $1,000,000 worth of stock in nine Texas banks. In one recent case, ownership of a thriving little bank, Moore State Bank in Llano, Texas, changed hands after two big blocks of stock were sold-749 shares to Moursund's mother, 749 to Brazos-Tenth. Those shares constituted controlling interest in the bank, and one Moore State stockholder said later: "After the transaction was closed, Mr. Johnson spoke of it to me at a party and thanked me for selling...
...Other ranchlands in central Texas, including the 1,800-acre Granite Knob Ranch, the nearby 800-acre Lewis Ranch, half of the 4,500-acre Haywood Ranch near Llano, and 1,700 acres along the Pedernales River near...