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...than 20 years tough old Nettie Thompson, a revolver strung from her neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Nettie's Homestead | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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