Word: ranchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made Rancher Beery, and all his neighbors, strap on their six-guns was a sudden executive order by Franklin Roosevelt, turning the entire Jackson Hole valley (221,000 acres) into a national monument, in the care of a man whom Western cattlemen loathe extraordinarily: Interior Secretary Harold Ickes...
...Frank Dobie, professor of literature, rancher, glorifier of the open range, accepted an invitation to Cambridge University, announced he would "explain homemade Fascism" to the English, gave as an example "John Lee Smith, Lieutenant-Governor of Texas [and] Laborbaiter." Replied Smith: "The shipping space . . . could be better used by shipping some good Texas beefsteak which English stomachs would relish better than English brains will digest the mental slumgullion which Dobie has for them...
...afternoon in the '80s, as two tired stubble-bearded cattle punchers (Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan) canter into the hushed, cruel, lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering ex-Confederate ramrod in uniform; his nervous, effeminate...
...fishing industry was making money galore. But the 125,000 U.S. fishermen had something else that was new-prestige. For the first time since Plymouth Rock, the fisherman was absolutely vital to the nation's food supply, as needed and respected as the rancher, the farmer...
...Unwilling Samaritan. In the Flathead National Forest, Mont., Rancher Henry Holmes encountered two deer fighting with their horns locked, shot at them, struck the horns, set them free...