Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party of reporters visited the Ed Perry Ranch at Menlo Park, Calif, one morning last week to have a look at Phar Lap, the huge red gelding from Australia that won the Agua Caliente Handicap (TIME, March 28). When stable attendants refused them access to the great horse's stall, the visitors grew suspicious. Perhaps Phar Lap was sick. They waited around...
Died. Bill Picket, 65, oldtime bulldozer on the famed 101 Ranch of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller (TIME, April 4); in Noble County, Okla. A towering Negro, Picket "threw steers with his teeth." To advertise the 101 Ranch show in Mexico City. Col. Joseph C. Miller (brother of Col Zack) once bet that Picket could down a bull as quickly as a toreador. Mexicans whooped with derision, brought a great, black bull down from the mountains, posted $5,000 and the gate receipts. So sure were the Mexicans that Picket would be gored to death that they provided a coffin...
...decree signed jointly with Premier Molotov (cautious Stalin never takes sole responsibility), 125 managers of State cattle ranches were dismissed and 35 of them indicted for criminal mismanagement (punishable by shooting). The decree, postulating that many of Russia's present breeding ranches are too large, ordered them split up by the creation of 102 new ranches, menaced with dire threats ranch managers who have ignored previous orders to breed on a strict cost accounting basis...
Under the auctioneer's gavel last week went famed 101 Ranch, bringing sorrow to the hearts of many a cowboy, cowgirl, Indian chief & squaw, including onetime Cowboys Will Rogers & Tom Mix, but mostly to the heart of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller, owner, who lay abed ill with a shotgun standing in the corner...
...come to the end of its resources. Founded by Col. George W. Miller in 1879, it comprised no.ooo acres of ranch land in Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip, was for two generations a rich cattle range, a richer source of oil until Depression hit the oil industry. But its greatest fame came from the Wild West circus organized in 1906 by the first Col. Miller's three sons, George, Joe & Zack. The troupe comprised some 1,400 cowboys, cowgirls, Indians, Cossacks, animal trainers, 600 horses, hundreds of wild animals. Cinemactor Mix and Funnyman Rogers got their start there. Col. Joe rode...