Word: tonto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cowboys, spread out in family groups to graze. Sheep followed each other, were bunched by the herder, tramped the range into dust, with the result that the next rain washed off the topsoil instead of bringing up fresh grass. Cattlemen had tried violence, but after a rancher in the Tonto Basin was hanged for killing two sheepherders, they gave it up. They tried cunning, stampeded wild horses into herds of sheep to discourage sheep-grazing on that part of the range. But the sheep kept coming. Coolidge says the legend of quick-shooting cowboys is pure myth: because they believed...
...interested in acting and I like the climate of California. I found acting much more pleasant than law." After being considered as a leading man for Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, he was given minor parts in The Woman Accused, Murders in the Zoo, Under the Tonto Rim and Little Women. Count Alexei in The Scarlet Empress is his first important role...
...forest ranger in the middle of the main street of Tonto Basin, Ariz, frantically flagged an approaching automobile. To its passengers he explained that his 15-year-old half-breed wife was in her 24th hour of labor. Out from the car climbed Arizona's Physician-Governor Benjamin B. Moeur, followed the ranger to his house. Few minutes later the Physician-Governor delivered the mother of a 7-lb. baby...
Zane Grey, wild west novelist, owns a large ranch on the rim of Arizona's Tonto Basin. On his ranch he had fat pigs. Last year Novelist Grey discovered that roving bears were hugging many of his delectable pigs to death. Since it was two weeks before the regular bear season opened, he wired the State game warden for special permission to do a little shooting. The warden refused. Later, although Novelist Grey pays taxes on two pieces of Arizona property, the warden would not issue to him a resident hunting license...
...fortnight, after having thought the matter over for a year, Novelist Grey decided that he had been insulted by this refusal, so grossly insulted that he would never go back to Arizona again. He said he would not even write any more of his famed Arizona stories (Under the Tonto Rim, Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally...