Word: ranching
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...friend took a bundle of her drawings to Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 Gallery in New York City, and 1976, when encroaching blindness forced her to more or less give up painting, O'Keeffe remained either a vivid presence or, in her later years of isolation on her ranch in Abiquiu, N. Mex., a formidable and revered absence...
Kelley, who operates a grain farm and cattle ranch with her husband and lobbies for the Rocky Mountain Farmer's Union, feels that there are serious problems with the nation's farm policy...
...March 1962, the body of 15-year-old Marlene Miller was found dumped in an irrigation ditch behind her home, a pair of scissors embedded in her throat, her shorts and underpants slit open. Within hours police arrested Booker T. Hillery Jr., a local black ranch hand already on parole from an earlier rape conviction. Circumstantial physical evidence, including his belt and tire prints from his car, was found near the scene of the crime. Hillery insisted on his innocence, but a jury found him guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to death...
...Ronald Reagan are now entertaining a King Charles at the White House. A King Charles spaniel, that is. Rex, as he is regally named, should reign longer as First Dog than did his recently deposed predecessor, Lucky, whose 65 lbs. and high spirits got him exiled to the Reagan ranch in California after only a year at the White House. Fully grown at 16 lbs., Rex promises to be more compatible with the diminutive First Lady. Furthermore, he has impeccable conservative papers. His sister is the pet of William F. Buckley Jr. The First Lady fell in love with...
...there have been billionaires like Bunker Hunt and Michener's Quimper, who have lost more money in a year than Harvard spends. Yes, there have been slick, amazingly successful politicians like Lyndon Johnson or Michener's Ransom Rusk and ranches like the King ranch that are so big that it makes more sense to fly accross them than to drive. Texas and its history are full of people and things which shock non-Texans...