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...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...
...been 15 months since Tshekedi, prosperous cattle rancher and former tribal Regent, was kicked out of the Bamangwato Reserve in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, following into exile his nephew, handsome, Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwatos (TIME, March...
...events in which 24-year-old Harley May had not done well in the fledgling (three-year-old) National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association championships. The son of a New Mexico rancher, May helped found N.I.R.A. three years ago, ever since has been the association's "All-Around Cowboy." Last week Cowboy May, who got his riding start atop a mule at the age of two, was out to repeat in the roughest of all collegiate sports...