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Word: stockmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more civilized climate of Texas. U.S. readers will appreciate Author Ronan's narrative gusto, his authentic, sometimes stomach-turning local color, and the chance to compare the U.S. and down-under forms of the western. Some differences spring to mind at once: Australian cowboys are called stockmen; they use 21-ft. whips rather than lariats; the noble redman of the plains is an ignoble blackfellow, i.e., aborigine; most important, the police are not star-spangled sheriffs hunting down bad men-they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheep Opera | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

David Lipscomb College, Nashville, a specialist in the prose of the cow. It is published by the notably pro-cow University of Oklahoma. And, to use an expression from Australia (where they don't have cowboys but stockmen), it is all a fair cow of a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cornua Longa, Ars Brevis | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still fight bears and cougars and board their children in school towns 50 miles away during winter. And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called "Mint bars" and "Stockmen's bars," silver-dollar-jangling miners and cowpokes speak up loudly in a man's world, while the roads to something-else are still walked by cocky, freewheeling itinerant ranch hands, gandy dancers and bindlestiffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The INLAND EMPIRE | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Paved highway took the contestant across the Northern Territory on the long (1,051 miles) run to Darwin. South and west across the "Outback" to the coast, the road was a nightmare of anthills and black "bulldust." Angry stockmen, who declared that the cars were frightening cattle, locked their gates and forced the travelers to detour. Indignant aborigines brandished tomahawks at the noisy invaders. Bush flies descended in swarms on bone-tired drivers taking catnaps. And in the tiny pearl-fishing town of Broome, the car crews found hardly enough food and beer to go around. By then, 88 entrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Down Under | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Nevada's biggest land owners. He has 43,000 acres in the fertile Humboldt River country and federal grazing rights on a million acres more. He owns 11,000 subsidiary acres in California. His 14,000 cattle make him one of the state's biggest stockmen. His S-Bar-B, Quilici-Biltz and Nevada Nile ranches make him one of its biggest crop producers. And restless Entrepreneur Biltz keeps his fingers in dozens of other likely financial enterprises, from shipping to housing developments all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEVADA: Mr. Big | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

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