Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...L.B.J. Ranch was a little too far away for regular visits, so Lyndon Johnson used to chopper off to the camp with three or four friends in tow. He also found the retreat an ideal locale for some Viet Nam War jawboning with skeptics like Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Recalls L.B.J. Aide Jack Valenti: "It was a frosty meeting, but they parted friends. There's something about Camp David that makes you feel softer...
...highlight of each year came when Steve and his friends drove the 90 miles to Billings where they stayed at the Dude Ranch Lodge before watching the state high school basketball championships in Shrine Auditorium. Irion says with his droll sense of humor that smacks of the prairie, "Billings seemed so big. It seemed like hours before we got to the 'Shrine...
...world got a look at in the carrot-and-stick politics of Lyndon B. Johnson. Henry Blanton is an alias for the 40-year-old cowpuncher whom Kramer selected to sit for her portrait of yet another vanishing American. Although he is foreman on a 90,000-acre Panhandle ranch, Blanton is entering his middle age with a hatful of failed promise and a headful of bourbon. "He moved." writes the author, "in a kind of deep, prideful disappointment. He longed for something to restore him -a lost myth, a hero's West. He believed in that West...
...knowing in the uses of loneliness. He suffers pain and disappointment without the crutch of self-pity There are always whisky and opportunities to commit mayhem in the name of cowboy justice. When a cow in Blanton's charge is gang-raped by three bulls from a neighboring ranch, Henry and his boys fall on them with castrating knives. But when Blanton's boss breaks a promise that could lead to a measure of financial independence, Henry submits in proud silence...
...ought to be a little cautious, seeing as how Lester is always taking advantage of him. I mean, the phone's always ringing, or that radio gadget in the truck, and there's Lester saying, "Henry, do this, do that." And it's not ranch work. It's Lester wanting someone to help him clean his swimming pool, or fix his roof, or run over to the feedyard and make sure those Okie calves he keeps trading on the side are getting the right feed...