Word: ranches
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...early 1980s, David made his own move into the wild. For a pittance he bought a 30-acre spread at Terlingua Ranch, a grandly named stretch of bare-bones, no-nonsense privacy among the mesquite and greasewood of the Chihuahuan desert, where lizards and diamondback rattlers are the nearest neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from...
...David revered his brother's commitment to a full-time wilderness existence. Because his cabin has no running water, David sometimes showered at a bunkhouse maintained by Terlingua Ranch. It was there that in 1983 he met Juan Sanchez, a Mexican farmhand who sometimes did maintenance work at the estates. David helped him secure a green card and urged him to write to his brother in Montana, who he suggested might be able to offer him advice on his immigration problems. That led to a seven-year correspondence. From November 1988 to November 1995, Ted wrote to Sanchez as often...
...Thursday night, dozens of FBI agents celebrated at the Seven-Up Guest Ranch a few miles from Lincoln--which has become their temporary headquarters. They are sure they have their man. They believe they have not only stopped an 18-year crime spree but also bagged an exceptional specimen: the brilliant sociopath who made himself virtually invisible. Says Ken Thompson: "The boys in the basement at Quantico are going to spend years studying this case...
...Yellowstone, I felt a wild thrill. And though the tourist board will tell you otherwise, there are indeed a lot of weirdos here: outcasts and outsiders of every stripe, a lot of them refugees from milder climes where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have a ranch nearby, not to mention the gun freaks, vegans and channelers). Out here, though, these folks are left alone. I like that. Whatever Kaczynski's crimes, if any, the fact he could live so long in his dank hut unmolested and undisturbed is evidence of rare tolerance, I think...
...town of Jordan, Montana, to cover the confrontation between the FBI and the Freemen only to find that news crews and law officers had taken all the hotel rooms. "So I flopped my sleeping bag in an old school bus in the barn on my cousin John Cooley's ranch," says Dawson, a native Montanan who has reported from the West for TIME for 15 years. He notes that the state has a "colorful and maybe not always noble history of vigilante movements." And although Dawson was surprised by "the accumulated anger and tunnel vision" of some of the Freemen...