Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bullets & Buckshot. One of the bitterest enemies of the hunters and their dogs is the Garlington family, a tough, aloof clan of ranchers who have prospered as breeders of Brahman cattle. Citizens with missing hounds look for them around the Garlingtons' 3,000-acre ranch; usually, they are shown the gate at gunpoint. "If you was to dig up their land," says a local woman, "you'd find dog bones every five feet...
...Christmas day, when six back-country hunters lost a dog, they piled angrily into two pickup trucks and with ready guns roared down the clay road to the Garlington ranch. On a roadside, near their fence, two Garlington brothers were waiting. "You sons of bitches!" someone shouted, and the shooting began...
...Mixon held that Sterling Garlington, in critical condition with a collapsed lung and splintered spine, "had the right to kill in self-defense. The hunters were strictly the aggressors." The other Garlington and the wounded hunter were in a fair way to recover. At her family's isolated ranch house, Leola Garlington was bitter. "Those dogs come in, and they've killed all our goats and hogs and the little calves," she gritted. "We don't want dogs on our place. We run the place in our own way, and we don't want anybody bothering...
Last week General Franco and his advisers, in five black limousines, on which the usual markings of El Caudillo's ownership were concealed, traveled Spain's ragged roads to the Palacio de las Cabezas, manor house of a 100,000-acre ranch run by the Count of Ruiseñada. There, in well-barricaded privacy, Franco sat down to lunch with Pretender Don Juan (who was allowed back into Spain on a passport describing him as Count of Barcelona). It was their first meeting in six years, and Juan's first visit to Spain since the Civil...
...most of those tend to settle in the outer metropolitan fringe between the gentlemen's estates and small farms. Example: having sold his first novel, The Blackboard Jungle, to the Ladies' Home Journal (for $35,000), 27-year-old Evan Hunter is moving from a Hicksville, L.I. ranch house to eastern Westchester County...