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...Inceville, down in Santa Monica Canyon, where I played Indian for a dollar a day and lunch, when I got it. I grew a little bored with that because there was a man, who is now a rather popular director . . . and he was always the child in the Conestoga wagon. He was the only one who didn't get killed by the Indians, you see. And I used to rescue him about three times a week, and it bored...
...father and mother (who had borne Henry in 1874 in a covered wagon near Winnemucca, Nev.) had trekked to Flagstaff, Ariz., where the elder Ashurst went into the cattle business. Summers, young Henry punched cows, more often tethered his horse and strode around the lonely Arizona landscape, exhorting the cacti and the boulders, making speeches to the mountains, like Demosthenes on the beach. He was practicing for his chosen career. He studied law, at the age of 21 got himself elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. He served later in the Territorial Senate. In 1912, Arizona was admitted to Statehood...
...News broadcasts climbed mightily, sports shows fell off. Popular music (as represented by Fitch Band Wagon) was listed among the 15 leading programs for the first time in three winter seasons...
Lunch hour was over. The convicts-134 of them-sprawled in two long rows stretching from the prison chuck wagon. Four hard-eyed mounted riflemen watched them. Six other armed guards waited near by. The stockade-Cummins Prison Farm in southeast Arkansas-was three miles away. Here were pea fields where the convicts had been working all morning. They were a tough crew, murderers, robbers, rapists, kidnappers-men like Frank Conley, who at 34 had a 21-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping; like Percy Loftin, who at 25 faced life plus 52 additional years for murder, robbery and kidnapping...
...dozed in the shade of a tree, his shotgun beside him. Near by, Convict Frank Conley waited, watched, his hand on a knife hidden in his clothes. Far down at the end of the line he saw two convict guards saunter up to the driver of the prison water wagon-an Indian, in for rape-and train their guns on him. At the opposite end of the line two convict guards armed with shotguns quietly moved up on the regular prison guards. It was just...