Word: ranchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sudan, whose sandy hair is thinning now, tells about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...
...ones and twos, wounded or half-frozen, eight more were tracked down. They left a lot of their blood in the snow. A prison guard and a rancher were also shot during the long night, but 24 hours later only one man was still on the loose. He was 29-year-old Jimmy Sherbondy, who had once killed a policeman...
...machine shop to show that there, too, human nature runs triumphantly rampant. And Williams' slackjawed, dust-caked cowhands, Curly, Stiffy, Wes and Soda of Out Our Way, have some of his friend Will Rogers' half-sad drollery. They are the working cowhands that Williams knew as a rancher ("when I was healthy an' didn't have this big belly...
...siege. The Widow King called in all hands one anxious night, gave them guns and posted them at strategic spots. Then she calmly went to bed. The raiders did not come; instead, they besieged the Norias division ranch house to the south. There eight bandits and one King rancher were killed. When other bandits kidnaped a ranch resident the vaqueros nabbed them by following the shells which the peanut-loving bandits had dropped...
Died. Robert Anderson ("Wild Horse Bob") Crosby, 50, battered "King of the Cowboys"; in a jeep accident; near Roswell, N.Mex. During his 26 years as a rodeo star, prosperous Rancher Crosby broke almost every bone in his body, became undisputed champion in the sport by thrice making high score at the giant Pendleton (Ore.) and Cheyenne (Wyo.) rodeos...