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...earth' ") with a weather-tanned face, Mrs. Bowring flew back to the ranch after the announcement "to kiss the cattle goodbye." Said she, with a characteristic twinkle: "They're about the only ones interested in kissing me any more." For her introduction to Washington, she adopted a rancher's formula: "I'm going to ... ride the fence awhile . . . until I find where the gates...
Dust Chronicle. Tipped off by Don Ignacio Guerra, a local rancher and amateur archeologist, he struggled up the remote Infernillo (Little Hell) Canyon and at last reached two caves in its vertical sides. The floor of the first was covered with four feet of dustlike material that he recognized at once as archeological pay dirt. It was chiefly the dried-up remains of millenniums of human occupancy...
...charge up Kettle Hill (later renamed San Juan Hill as more romantic) and his African lion-hunting trip are familiar to every history book reader, but some minor adventures were every bit as dramatic. As a "gentleman rancher" in the Bad Lands of Dakotas, Roosevelt was also a deputy sheriff who won considerable repute catching three rustlers by himself. His African trip has been well recorded, but a remarkable trip up the Amazon at the age of 58, on which he caught an almost fatal does of jungle fever, went without much notice. Critics said he had an adolescent, romantic...
William G. (for George) Bonelli is one of the noisiest, most powerful politicians in California. A hawk-beaked, hail-fellow rancher, lawyer and onetime associate professor, "Big Bill''* Bonelli, 58, wears wide-brimmed hats and. when the occasion demands, a Phi Beta Kappa key (won at the University of Southern California). He is also the boss of one of the most potent political agencies in the U.S. As chairman of the California State Board of Equalization, Bonelli supervises the tax assessments of big businesses; as the board member for Southern California, he hands out all liquor licenses from...
With the coming of federal relief, the Governor's popularity took a brief rise, but soon proceeded to drop even farther when farmers realized that the aid was of the type that would benefit only the big rancher. What the small producer needed was government price supports for cattle and not the lower feed prices the Administration offered...