Word: wagoneer
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...steam by bucketing down the main street on their perkiest cow ponies. Then came automobiles-but little else changed. Everyone still barreled through town at a breakneck clip. The sheriff was twelve miles away in Abilene, as remote as he was in the old freewheeling frontier days of wagon trains and trail herds...
...line, in a popular song, singing: "Hello, Central, give me Heaven." She wanted to talk to her mother. And never did the eternal triangle chime more funereally than it did in the Nineties, most notably under the hand of Paul Dresser, songwriter (The Banks of the Wabash), monologuist, medicine-wagon minstrel and older brother of Theodore Dreiser. Dresser's He Brought Home Another might have qualified as the first great aria in soap opera...
Born to poor Irish immigrants at a Mormon wagon stop in Nebraska, Allie Sullivan was a pert 17, working as a waitress, when tall, red-mustached Virgil Earp shambled into a Council Bluffs cafe for grub one day in 1864. "Virge was the only man I ever loved or got married to," recalls Allie. "For any woman one good man's plenty and one poor one's too many...
...sullen, brooding Virgil Earp was plenty good to the woman he considered his wife. (Among other bits of Earpiana, Waters has discovered that Virgil and Allie never bothered with a wedding.) But over and over again, Allie's few belongings were packed into a Studebaker wagon as Virgil drifted west from Council Bluffs to Tombstone, where he joined forces with the rest of the Earp clan...
Ikeda was born in Hiroshima prefecture, is descended from six generations of wealthy sake makers. In early deference to the family business, he developed a prodigious capacity for the native drink (the Tokyo newspaper Mainichi noted candidly last week that "he has been on the wagon now for one month"). He became a hard-working government tax expert. In World War II, he bossed the tax bureau's head office in Tokyo, raising revenues for the Imperial armies. During the U.S. occupation of Japan, he proved to be U.S. Economic Adviser Joseph Dodge's most stubborn and effective...