Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...m.p.h. clip, on highways and convenient side roads, leaves time for savoring the sights and smells of roadside flowers, corn-and wheatfields, and taking in the brassy greetings of small-town high school bands. Any number on the train started out in the far West. "My great-great-grandmother walked from Iowa City to Salt Lake City pulling a handcart with four children in it," says Ed Porritt, 41, an artist from Green River, Wyo. "I think about that and get out of the wagon and walk every time I can. I figure I've walked 1,300 miles...
...Kamenetski and left as Sam Kamen," says Tom A. Friedmann, 26, an attorney from Wichita, Kans., "because the immigration inspectors couldn't spell or pronounce his full name. He was a carriage maker, and he had some friends who had settled out West, so he took the first train to Kansas City. He saved money and started a grocery store, and most of our family has gone into retailing. My sister and I were the first ones to go to college...
...that helped revolutionize agriculture, was born down the road and went on to be Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture. Glenn Martin lay on the nearby hills and watched the birds glide and dive, then went off to build his famous airplanes. Jesse James staged his first successful train robbery on the railroad tracks a short way up the line...
...Indians had fled and the towns were rising, a Canadian immigrant in the land ocean. He rode the rails as far as he could, climbed off and asked about the opportunities for a cobbler. Somebody said there was a new town off about 20 miles, called Greenfield, Iowa. No train there. No stage. He walked, liked the place, sent for his family of six back in Ontario. My father's father, being the eldest son, shepherded them all safely to their new home. The family started a newspaper, helped build the town. My father recalled as a young...
...refin'd, and join th' angelic train...