Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While they were running, Lee--who was angry at Page because he had gone out with another woman the night before--veered onto a different trail. It was typical of Lee, who was moody, sensitive and unpredictable. Assuming she would catch up with them, Page and the friend waited for her at the end of the trail. She never arrived...
When they returned to the place where Page had parked, Lee wasn't there either. Page left the woman in the parking lot in case Lee returned, and drove the car along the highway that follows the trail Lee had taken. Twenty minutes later, he returned without...
...more than a century after the time of that story, Mathers rode their trail, sank his roots into their grasslands and adapted to the big weathers and financial buffetings of the Great Plains. Storms natural and political have raged there forever, and another is blowing this summer. Mathers will survive as he always has, with hard work, shrewd calculation. He and those like him may be the future of this vast and troubled land, which seems to be stumbling back in time toward a recast frontier where grass will be king, some buffalo may actually roam again, and man will...
Mathers decided in 1951 that the Texas Panhandle, where he grew up, was too crowded and expensive for cattlemen. He headed north "for cheap grass," to the border of Rosebud and Custer counties, just above Miles City, Mont. Mathers did not trail a herd a thousand miles across the powdery plains, fending off Kiowa and Comanche, or ford the snake-infested Nueces River. Instead, he put 200 Herefords on the Santa Fe Railroad, climbed into his blue Oldsmobile and rolled smoothly up Highway 83. He was there in two days. (Lonesome Dove's McCrae and Call took months.) Mathers bought...
...other questioners commented on the variety of his experience -- as attorney general, trial judge, state supreme court justice, federal appeals court judge -- and the ample record, including 220 state supreme court opinions, that was available for scrutiny. Unlike failed nominee Robert Bork, however, Souter had left behind no trail of speeches or law-review articles that might betray a strong ideological bent...