Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation, embracing and mirroring its thousand aspects. Charles Willson Peale fought at Princeton and Trenton and wintered at Valley Forge. John James Audubon killed birds in the wilderness not only for models but also to feed his children. Frederic Remington actually rode the Wild West as ranch hand, cook and cavalryman. Grant Wood said that all his best ideas "came while milking...
...Florida's largest landowners last week agreed to shell out $3,700,000 for the choice 42,000-acre Rudolphus Keene cattle ranch along the Saint Johns River. The buyer, whose holdings of Florida cattle land now total 360,000 acres: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The huge ranch operation and the Mormons' dozens of other bustling business ventures − including a Hawaiian sugar plantation, cattle ranches in western Canada, two insurance companies and 72 buildings in downtown Salt Lake City −reflect the strong tradition of communal ownership begun in Utah no years...
...cultural event of the year. Everybody dons their Western apparel (in the bigger Western cities people are fined and jailed for not doing so) and goes to the rodeo. Being head of the citizen's rodeo committee is one of the most highly honored civic positions. Many Westerners have ranch backgrounds, and even if they are not so fortunate, seeing the rodeo faithfully every year produces a certain knowledge and appreciation of rodeo skills...
Despite the large attendance at Boston rodeos, there are marked disadvantages to holding rodeos here. Besides not having a fully appreciative audience the cowboys have nothing to do for two weeks except a few show appearances in a town utterly foreign to their ranch backgrounds...
...cowboy is paid; in fact each has to pay to compete for prize money. Four of the contestants are Massachusetts boys, but as Smith said, "They ain't done nothing hardly worth spittin' at." Another local participant is Morgan Smith '60 of Winthrop House who manages his family ranch in Aspen, Colorado during the summer...