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Word: texasâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...spectacle that the enterprise of motion picture producers has not yet exploited is a fight between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Ku Klux Klan. But the city of Port Arthur, Texas???population 22,000?staged for the public the thrilling battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: I. W. W. vs. K. K. K. | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...Story. Eighteen sixty-seven. Texas???immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin. The Del Sol ranch?sole owner, Anastasie ("Taisie") Lockhart, redhaired, beautiful, 20-year-old orphan ?her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: *North of 36 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

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