Word: tonto
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...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...