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...Coburn), older, feeling threatened by age, takes a lawman's job. The marshal's badge makes him answerable to the ranchers and the politicians in Santa Fe. It is their star, their job, and they want Billy out of the way. Garrett rides down to Old Fort Sumner to give him a warning and a few days' head start. Billy makes an ironic toast: "Sheriff Pat Garrett-sold out to the Santa Fe ring. How's it feel?" "It feels," Garrett tells him with unmistakable finality, "like times have changed...
Magruder got the fame he sought -though hardly the kind he expected or perhaps deserved. His ranch-style house in Sumner, Md., is staked out by television crews and reporters; passers-by stop to gawk. The once ebullient family is not often on view. There are no more supper parties, bicycling trips, tennis matches. Rarely does anyone answer the doorbell or the telephone. An American political career has ended...
...were extremely lucky," said Bruynzeel afterward. He had gambled by piloting Stormy on a longer northerly route, hoping to make better time by picking up more favorable trade winds. It proved a providential tactic; the heavily favored Ondine, skippered by U.S. Ship Broker Sumner ("Huey") Long, took the shorter southern route, and was so repeatedly becalmed that she had to drop out of the race...
...comedy is as light as balsa wood, but the key performers are as sol id as oaks. Hyde-White can milk a line till it turns to cream. Almost equally adept are Robert Coote as a jowl-waggling army colonel and Geoffrey Sumner as a member of the landed gen try who regards all birds as fair game...
...Colonel Kit Carson led his New Mexico Volunteers against the still warlike Navajos. Vastly outnumbered by the 10,000 Indians, Carson avoided open battle and waged war by burning crops and homes. The Navajos surrendered. Then their conquerors marched them 300 miles to a desolate encampment at Fort Sumner, N. Mex., where many of them died of hunger and disease. Only after they vowed never to fight again were they permitted to return to a reservation on their former lands. The weavers resumed their work, but as Berlant and Kahlenberg put it, "the pride with which a blanket was woven...