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Explosive attacks on the powers that be didn't start with the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. In December 1905, in Caldwell, Idaho, a sagebrush railroad town near Boise, a bomb attached to a garden gate killed the state's former Governor, Frank Steunenberg. Blame for the murder was quickly pinned on traveling "sheep dealer" Harry Orchard, who confessed to being a paid assassin for the Western Federation of Miners, one of the era's most powerful labor unions. The union's highest officials were indicted, and the young Clarence Darrow hired to defend them. The result was a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WILD WESTERN | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides, and the land in between is sagebrush open range populated by scrawny cattle and dotted with eerie bunkerlike structures with names like "U.S. Navy Centroid Facility." From the south, near the infamous secret air base known as Area 51, talk-radio guru Art Bell spreads news of UFOs and sunken continents. To the northwest, in the Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTIN, NEVADA: CONSPIRACY, U.S.A. | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...silver. Miners came in the mid-1800s, and visions of a different kind of silver drew even more speculators when casinos began to open in the 1960s. Nevada is traditionally Democratic, but an influx of newcomers in the 1980s has given Republicans a foothold here. But however inhospitable the Sagebrush State may be to farmers (and moderates), Democrats see the Second District's open seat as fertile ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NEVADA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

FIVE YEARS AGO, SIERRA TUCSON WAS the model of a happy farm for substance abusers. Thousands of people from across the country came to the manicured 325-acre "campus" to deal with their addictions to alcohol, drugs, food, sex or gambling among the saguaros and sagebrush in the foothills of Arizona's Santa Catalina mountains. It was a Cadillac of the substance-abuse centers, and a company-provided Cadillac at that: employee health insurance routinely covered most of the costs of the standard 30-day stay there. Today, Sierra Tucson is a different place. Where there used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REHAB CENTERS RUN DRY | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...same one every day. I remember because the man driving it read the newspaper while he drove to work (at about 70 mph). He never had an accident, nor was there any reason to think he would. The road was straight and there was nothing to hit except some sagebrush and barbed wire fences...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Get Your Motor Running... | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

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