Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh went to Mexico after animals and received special permission from the government to shoot two cinnamon bears and two machos berendes (wild bulls). From the Hal Mangum ranch came a despatch telling of Lindbergh's slaying an antelope from an airplane...
...before and just after Dec. 20, 1922, the date of the Salt Creek lease, Oilman Sinclair gave or loaned Secretary Fall $35,000. The day the bids for the Salt Creek contract were supposed to close, Oilman Sinclair was on a train returning from a visit to the Fall ranch in New Mexico. It was nine hours after the legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward Clingan Finney not to be too formal about the bids. The belated Sinclair bid was accordingly...
...power of pigs. Mr. Churchill's piggery is at Westerham; and Sir William's nestles on his Sussex estate, Newick Park. Both are scorned as mere "gentlemen's pig pens" by shrewd, onetime (1916-22) Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who owns a large, commercial pig ranch and tells his former constituents that "you and I keep pigs for profit, not prizes...
...heart of the cattle country at Red Fork Ranch on the Chisholm Trail" is the locale of this absolutely fresh, vigorous and entertaining story of cowboys and Indians in the Southwest of the 1880's. Far from being of purely juvenile interest it has an historical value all the more welcome because of the authentic perspective it furnishes of the lives of our western forefathers, and the vast movements of humanity from east to west following the Civil War. Those who cherish memories of the true West and are surfeited with the false and discordant atmosphere shed by cheap novels...
...author went to his brother's cattle ranch on the bank of a river in Oklahoma territory at the age of ten. He made the acquaintance of cow-boys. Indians, and bandits, and at the age of nineteen served as a cow-boy himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life...