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After watching television some nights, Red Simpson, a 56-year-old Florida cattle rancher, stars in a private little drama of his own. In the classic tradition of the video western, Simpson moseys out to his faithful Jeep and for several hours rides the range of Osceola County in search of rustlers. Cattle raising, long overshadowed by Florida's famous beach resorts, is big business in the Sunshine State, where the first stock was brought in by Ponce de León in 1521. Today almost a quarter of all Florida's acreage is grazing land...
James Buckley comes by his minority party seat through inherited establishment tilting: his Catholic grandfather was once a sheep rancher in Baptist cattle-ranching country in Texas. The family fortune was eventually made in oil, and James Buckley has spent most of his business life with the family firm, the Catawba Corp., which provides expert help in oil and mineral exploration. A lawyer and vice president of the firm, he has traveled extensively on company business...
...WEST. Rancher Bruce King, who also heads a butane company, won the New Mexico governorship from Republican Pete Domenici largely on the strength of superior experience: King was speaker of the state house of representatives and president of the state's constitutional convention last year, while Domenici had only a middling record as head of the Albuquerque city commission to offer...
...second grade in Binger, Okla., they asked us what we wanted to be. Some said they wanted to be a farmer. Some said rancher. Cowboy. I said I wanted to be a ballplayer, and they laughed. In the eighth grade they asked the same question, and I said ballplayer and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade they weren't laughing...
Some of Oklahoma's present fortunes were made off the misfortune of earlier Okies. In the Dust Bowl days, recalls Rancher Ross Labrier, "the small ranchers who had about 160 acres fled first...