Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas gets its 65-minute message across without gunplay. The hero, a rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill from a broncho and has to go to the hospital...
...people, and has contracts to seed clouds over 330 million acres west of the Missouri River (an area ten times as big as New York State), plus sections of Mexico and San Salvador. This, he intimates happily, is only a beginning-he visualizes a time when a rancher may need only turn a dial in his house to regulate rainfall on his acres. But until that day comes, the West will have to do the best it can with plain old Krick water...
...Dallas gambling during the war years. When Binion raised the ante to 40%, Noble rebelled. Two "enforcers" went after him in a wild night automobile chase and shot him in the back. About that time, Binion moved to Las Vegas, and Noble retired from gambling to become a rancher and a trader in surplus airplane engines. The feud between them...
...Rancher Joe Evans got his religion in an American frontier home where a Bible and a rifle were the two indispensable items of furniture. His rancher father and his mother were devout Baptists, and father fought his share of Indians. In 1890, when Joe was nine, his parents helped found a series of outdoor camp meetings which are still held in West Texas. Joe watched hell-raising Jeff Davis County become law-abiding to the point where the grand jury, eleven years running, could find nobody to indict...
...main streets had to be taken out in boats. More than 20,000 people were driven from their homes in Topeka, the state capital. Flood water spilled over the Santa Fe railroad tracks near Emporia and for 55 hours stranded 337 passengers in the crack passenger train El Capitan. Rancher Bill Brandt landed his small plane on a nearby highway 15 times to bring in supplies and to take out five sick passengers...