Word: miller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anglem 3M, B. M. Banks 3M, W. T. Buddington 4M, H. G. Clarke 3M, A. G. Graybiel 3M, H. H. Hamiltone 3M, P. S. Horenstein 3M, A. E. Kranes 3M, J. H. Lawrence 3M, R. E. Mabrey 4M, M. L. Miller 4M, H. A. Poindexter 4M, P. G. Sanderson 4M, L. A. Sears 4M, C. P. Sheldon 4M, H. M. Spence 3M, L. K. Sweet 4M, D. W. Wallwork...
Along the road to Ponca City, Okla., last week, two motorists halted at the sight of an overturned roadster. They found under the car the body of a man, his head pinned beneath a front wheel. On the way to a hospital the injured man died. He was George Miller, millionaire ranchman, oilman, farmer-man, circus-man. With his death passed the second of the three Miller Brothers whose 101 Ranch was famed throughout the Southwest, whose 101 Ranch Wild West Show was famed throughout the world. Col. Joe Miller, onetime head of ranch and show, was found dead...
Farm. Yet though it is the 101 Ranch Show that has carried the fame of the Millers from Tulsa to Borneo, it is the 101 Ranch itself which represents the Miller Brothers' greatest accomplishment. The Ranch today includes 110,000 acres, 45,000 of which are owned by the Miller family...
...death of Colonel Miller (father of the Miller brothers) the family was, as Zack Miller remarked, "flat as the prairie." Once it had been a great cattle family. In 1880, old Colonel Miller had built the first barb wire fence in the district. But the very necessity for a barb wire fence was an indication that the old free days were passing. In 1893 the district, opened to homesteaders, began to change from a cattle to a farming region. The old Colonel continued to raise nothing but cattle, ran into the Panic of the '90's, crashed...
During the winter the Millers sold their few remaining cattle to the Indians; decided that they too would change from cattle to farming, but on a scale that would bring back the departed glory of the Miller house. Next spring they put in 5,000 acres of wheat, harvested a record crop of 70,000 bushels, sold at $1.20 a bushel in Chicago. The Cattle Millers were the Farmer Millers then...