Word: waggon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They started to cut Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon (valued at $450,000) and Van Dyck's Daedalus and Icarus from their frames and then abandoned them. Though both are relatively low-rated by today's art buyers, the thieves probably were not exercising esthetic discrimination. For one thing, they had time to pilfer $40 from a cashbox, proving their main interest to be monetary. For another, they left a Tintoretto, another Renoir and a Degas untouched...
...fact, quite frightening. All of them are brought together by a common desire; they want to get married. Since no one on the Eastern seaboard is interested in marrying them, they head out West to take what they can get. Westward the Women is their mule and waggon safari to California. They start off with Robert Taylor and a bunch of cowboys for protection. As things turn out, the cowboys need more protection than the women. Taylor warns his boys to "stay away from the wimin," and he shoots a few offenders to prove he means it. The women...