Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while last week, it looked like a nice way to reduce the deficit. After a lengthy tax dispute, the Federal Government seized the Mustang Ranch near Reno, the state's most venerable house of legal prostitution. U.S. bankruptcy trustees were aiming to operate the place themselves until they could find a buyer. The IRS says owner Joe Conforte owes $13 million in back taxes. The big bordello -- more than 100 rooms on 360 acres -- could indeed have been a moneymaking proposition for the government. A prospectus showed 1986 revenues of $5.6 million. But late last week a bankruptcy judge nixed...
Philip Burgess, of the Center for the New West in Denver, looked out from his urban redoubt on the edge of the plains and declared the advent of an "archipelago society." Modest to small cities are sprinkled across great washes of sparsely populated land, the tiny towns nearly dead, ranches getting bigger. The surviving communities are oases that offer services and cultural amenities for the surrounding areas. Mathers foresaw that intuitively when he arrived 40 years ago. Except for a short spell at first, he has lived in Miles City and driven to and from his ranch 25 miles away...
...femur and a collection of other bones back at the house were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter, separating out the fossils with a garden hose and a window screen. To nonpaleontologists, Horner writes in his recent book, Digging Dinosaurs (Workman Publishing; $17.95), the fossils resembled "a bunch of black, sticklike rocks -- jumbled and inscrutable, the way much of modern art seems to me." But to Horner, they were...
...settlements included a $1.75 million payment to a 55-year-old woman who was shot in the stomach during a 1981 drug raid on her Lake Sherwood ranch and a $500,000 payment to a former movie-studio employee who suffered back injuries and was disabled after he was allegedly kicked by a deputy sheriff for failing to follow instructions promptly when stopped for a traffic violation in Marina del Rey in 1982. In 1983 Charles Porter and his wife were leaving a restaurant in City of Commerce when they were detained by deputies investigating what turned...
...small boy has witnessed the killing, and he knows who pulled the trigger: his father. On the Western plains, a frightened woman leaves her husband and four young children. He tracks her down, and she relents as "her body starts flowing toward the baby." A man returns to the ranch where his mother has married a drunken old farmhand and finds she has done the right thing. In a Father's Place (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 214 pages; $18.95) is filled with such surprises, along with a profound sense of place, character and incident. Christopher Tilghman's first book announces...