Word: nodaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...