Word: tankersley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some ranchers are returning to a technique that was used by the Indians who followed their buffalo across the land for centuries before Hal Noelke's great-great-grandfather, R.F. Tankersley, became the first white man to settle in the area, in 1864. They are attacking the mesquite with fire: bulldozing fire guards and then setting a careful blaze when the wind is right to take down an entire pasture of mesquite at one time...
Monte Noelke, a rancher and another of Tankersley's great-great-grandchildren, is a raconteur with Homeric talents and the family's sidelong sense of humor. Monte has decided that he ought to start a business transplanting mesquite trees and selling them as immense houseplants to people in New Jersey...