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...invalidate the real feats of courage and enterprise that helped settle the West, from the Mormons' trek to Utah to the building of the first transcontinental railroad. As usual, Burns and Ives use personal stories to humanize large events. We learn, for example, about Charles Goodnight, the Texas rancher who returned from the Civil War, found that cattle prices had plummeted and decided to take his herd north to look for buyers--thus helping launch the era of the great cattle drives. The story of the California gold rush is framed by the diary and letters of William Swain...
...live, the store shelves had been cleared of staples from tampons to dried beans to rifle shells. The locals were scared, and there was talk of violence. As the appointed day drew near, I heard dark rumors of tanks along the highway and camouflaged snipers hiding in a rancher's fields...
...family holed up there. But sympathy for the fugitives has been hard to find. The common view is that the Clarks and their cohort are sore losers in the perilous game of farming and ranching. "They just sit up there dreamin' up things to be a public nuisance," says rancher Tom Wilson. "We're all sick of it." But everywhere there's a strong desire for a bloodless settlement. "We think they were led astray," says former Garfield County commissioner Kenneth Coulter. "They were possibly gullible because of their financial situation...
Paul Dinsmore, an area rancher who is also host of a right-wing Colorado radio talk show, visited the group a month ago and has been in touch with them since. "At this point they're just scared," he says. "They don't have much stored food. They know they are going to jail. They have visions of being shot, and they want their safety ensured." As for the fbi, there were no signs last week that they were fixing for a fight. Bulldozers were improving the roads in the vicinity of a farmhouse near the Clark place. If they...
...metaphysics of weather: it is not that weather has necessarily grown more apocalyptic. The famous "Winter of the Blue Snow" of 1886-87 turned rivers of the American West into glaciers that when they thawed, carried along inundations of dead cattle. Theodore Roosevelt was virtually ruined as a rancher by the weather that destroyed 65% of his herd. In the annus mirabilis of 1811, the Mississippi River flowed northward briefly because of the New Madrid earthquake...