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...urban pretensions in bigger towns like St. Joseph and Des ! Moines, the region was geared to nature's rhythms, a verdant land of quilted green and slow streams with such names as Skunk and Nodaway. The Flood of '93 stole some of its innocence and its trust. The most frequently cataloged submersibles besides homes and acres of waving grain were bandstands and ball fields. "Summers are what we are all about," insists the Des Moines Register's Larry Fruhling. "This summer was wrecked." Worse, it may have planted fear in the hearts of thousands of the yeomen...
...fallen William McKinley. The robust Teddy Roosevelt was part of her wedding, so to speak. At least he was in the White House. Ross did Wilson's bidding. One day in 1917 he harnessed up his team and climbed in the wagon and drove through the flooded Nodaway River to sign up for World War I conscription. They needed him more on the farm, it turned...
...Changed Woman. Last July, in a tavern in St. Joseph, 50 miles north of Kansas City, Hall met puffy, whisky-soaked Bonnie Brown Heady. 41. * People around Nodaway County, Mo. remembered Mrs. Heady as a pigtailed little girl on a dappled pony given her by her father, a prosperous farmer. In St. Joe, she had been known for 20 years as the attractive wife of a livestock broker, with whom she attended square dances and club meetings. A year ago, her personality seemed to change. She divorced her husband. She took to swilling a quart of liquor...
...father. But Horace Jones, a covered-wagon man who got the choicest piece of land in northwestern Missouri, would take a lot of breaking. A shrewd, hard-bitten Welshman, he founded the town of Parnell, ran the Parnell bank, and knew more about raising cattle than anybody in Nodaway County. He wanted Ben to become a banker, but that wasn't in the cards...
Down on the Farm. Though he is the best handler of horses now handling, Ben Allyn ("B.A.") Jones, 61, modestly claims only an abiding love for anything that neighs. He first straddled a horse at the age of four on his father's farm in Nodaway County, Mo. He used to run match races around a half-mile farm track. Very early he formulated his cardinal, cryptically simple rule of training: "Just give them what they need, whenever it looks like they need...