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...down only 10 to 40 feet. Finally, he pounced upon a sink hole they showed him only a few hundred feet from the white cow's sulphurous swimming hole. This hole was only just big enough to admit the body of a cow, but a local ranchman had lately dropped a small herd of dead cattle into it one by one. That accounted for the white cow, and the white cow appeared to prove the subterranean cavern theory of the subsidence. Geologist Lambert warned that the cavernous area might extend widely, lying perhaps under the town of Sharon Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bottomless Pit | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Ardmore, Okla., one Ethel Hindman, ranchman's daughter, at the request of cinema photographers and before the marveling gaze of 4,000 yokels admitted at 25 cents each, stood up on the wing of an airplane, leaped into space, curved down 40 feet to cleave the waters of the city lake. The force of the impact split her bathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ranchman's Daughter | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...Call of the Canyon. Glenn Kilbourne survives gassing in the War. But on his return the spectacle of his love fox-trotting and crap-shooting knocks him out. The Doctor ships him to Arizona, where a ravishing (but simple) ranchman's 'daughter nurses him back to health. Meanwhile the fox-trotter and crap-shooter runs out to Arizona for a personally conducted tour of inspection. A bad old villain chases her through a fearful storm to a deserted cabin. The hero rescues her, but she returns to fox-trotting. There is still the ranchman's daughter. Marjorie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...Next Door is all about a ranchman's beautiful daughter who deserts the range for Northampton and a higher education. Her father follows her footsteps four years later and together they attempted to scale the heights of Park Avenue society. For several reels they fail badly. The daughter-of-the-range manages a runaway rescue of a prominent debutante who is more potent in the ballroom than she is on a horse. Meanwhile the cultured cowgirl has roused romance in the breast of the youth next door. A"nd so it goes. The best of the acting is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...plot of "The Witches' Mountain" concerns the scheming and planning of three ranchmen to obtain the love of Inda, the daughter of a fellow ranchman. The story gradually works up to a powerful climax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOREIGN PLAYS TO BE GIVEN THIS EVENING | 11/29/1921 | See Source »

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