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...prime breeding cattle. They are treated like visiting royalty, right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread in stride, their home-grown counterparts are visibly awed. Drawls one weathered wrangler: "Ole Lamar got so much money, he coulda greased Pontius Pilate's palm and got Jesus Christ off with three weeks on the county correction farm...
...country fair for children of Government leaders on the White House lawn last week, Lynda showed up, with Chuck, in a mod cow-wrangler rig of mini-culottes-revealing an eye-popping expanse of leg-and a five-gallon hat that showed how far Hamilton's chic influence on her wardrobe had faded...
Outside, he looks through the plate glass window to see the Texas Wrangler man chasing dirty water across the tile floor...
...Last Bohemian, a conformist who chose to cleave to a tradition of dissent. Rexroth has some thing like Chamber of Commerce status in San Francisco, safely beached on the shore where the last wave of American radicalism washed up. He is a legend as poet, horse wrangler, hobo, perpetual avant-gardesman, painter, and finally, at 60, Grand Old Man of what used to be called the Youth Racket...
...turkey. But my first memory was to ride a stick horse and my first wishes and desires was to be a wild and woolly cowboy." A wild and woolly cowboy that little boy became, and many years later, encouraged by Folk Singer John Lomax, the old wrangler rustled up a stub pencil to scribble off the story of "what I have saw." Published locally in 1943 and now nationally for the first time, A Stove-Up Cowboy's Story comes jackknifing off the page with all the red-eyed energy of the life it describes. Jim McCauley wrote...