Word: winnemucca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...