Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rawhide stripped from their carcasses for years "held Texas together." Streaming up the Chisholm Trail and across deserts motorists still shy at, they were the founders of the U. S. ranching industry. Theirs was "the greatest, the most extraordinary, the most stupendous, the most fantastic and fabulous migration of animals controlled by man that the world has ever known." They gave character to a wide new country, grand as Siberia; they gave soul and shape to a new human breed, the Texas cowboy. Says Author Dobie: "I do not believe that any kind of riding will pump virtue into...
...Guggenheim grant, he traveled 2,000 miles on muleback in Mexico, emerged with material for Tongues of the Monte, rich legendary dope on the lost Tayopa Mine (Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver). For The Longhorns he searched through thousands of pamphlets, talked to hundreds of oldtimers. Said an old trail driver of Frank Dobie: "He speaks our language-and he's got the right tune as well as the right words...
...Winship sped down a hard-packed Sherburne trail in Pinkham Notch yesterday morning in the fast time of 2 minutes 36 seconds capturing the annual Harvard ski race and securing as an added honor the trophy recently offered to the winner of this traditional event...
Anyone who can navigate a pair of skis, in other words any old hacker, is urged to join in the annual Harvard ski-race on the Sherburne trail in Pinkham Notch, beginning at 10 o'clock Sunday morning...
Raceers will have ideal snow under their boards as they skim down the last mile-and-a-half of the trail which drops down the side of Mt. Washington...