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He left politics and went to the frontier, becoming a rancher in the " Badlands " in the Dakotas.
The annexation went into effect November 3, 1896, but Wilson L. Richards, a local cattle rancher, sued to overturn the annexation because he and other landowners in the area were now subject to taxation by Stark County.
He sold the White House to a rancher on the installment plan for yearly payments of $ 100, 000, and tried to sell the Statue of Liberty to a visiting Australian, who went to the police.
He went to British Columbia, the United States and Mexico, working variously in such jobs as a rancher, a gold miner and even as an extra in Hollywood films, before in 1915 returning to the UK due to the First World War.
King Fisher's gang dispersed ; Fisher went into retirement as a rancher, following a Ranger raid on his ranch during which McNelly arrested him.

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In 2000, the United Nations opened an investigation into vigilante killings of migrants crossing Mexico's border with the USA, dispatching a senior UN investigator to the border country close to where Sam Blackwood, a 74-year-old rancher, was charged with killing Eusebio de Haro, an unarmed Mexican he tried to subdue for the border patrol and fatally shot in the back of the thigh after pursuing him a quarter mile down the road in his truck.
Except to the south, the refuge surrounds the former farm of Charles Albert Creamer ( 1889-1974 ), a former chicken rancher from Washington state who moved to Fairbanks in 1927 and established Creamer's Dairy at mile 2 ( km 3 ) of the Ester Road ( today's College Road ), which operated until shortly after the 1967 flood.

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However, the first Albany County sheriff, rancher N. K. Boswell, organized a " Vigilance Committee ", and on October 28, 1868, Boswell led the committee into the Bucket of Blood, overwhelmed the three brothers, and lynched them at an unfinished cabin down the street.

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This began with a Confederate train robbery of a Union gold shipment during the American Civil War, then moved to a post-war Texas county thoroughly controlled by a rich, arrogant rancher.
After discovery of gold on Lynx Creek in the spring of 1863, the Dewey area was settled around the summer 1863 by pioneer prospector, rancher and Indian-fighter King Woolsey ( 1832 – 1879 ), who founded the Agua Fria Ranch, then better known as " Woolsey Valley ," to supply the miners.
Kid Curry killed two lawmen in Knoxville, Tennessee, escaped capture, then traveled to Montana, where he killed a rancher who had killed his brother Johnny years before.
Dooley worked as a rancher and then as an administrative assistant for California State Senator Rose Ann Vuich from 1987 to 1990.
McCrea – who was an outdoorsman who had once listed his occupation as " rancher " and his hobby as " acting " – had begun buying property as early as 1933, when he purchased his first in what was then an unincorporated area of eastern Ventura County, California, but later became Thousand Oaks, California.
Hansen's obituary contends that he " brought both the down-to-earth pragmatism of a lifelong cattle rancher and the affability of a small-town politician to Cheyenne and then to Washington, and he was on friendly and familiar terms throughout his career, not only with those on both sides of the political aisle, but also with elevator attendants, cafeteria workers, and staff members throughout the Capitol who called him friend.
In 1976, however, McGee was upset by the Republican nominee Malcolm Wallop, a New York City-born rancher and businessman from Sheridan, who in the following two years as Hansen's colleague voted mostly in line with Hansen, who then became Wyoming's senior senator.
However, the McCanles Gang legend seems to be traceable to an incident between " Duck Bill " Hickok, as he was then known, and a local rancher David Colbert McCanles, a former sheriff of Watauga County, North Carolina who was known as a local bully and had earlier had an argument with Hickok over the latter " stealing " his mistress Sarah ( Kate ) Shull.
Blue Boy's mother Annalee ( Joan Caulfield ) was killed in the first episode by an Indian arrow, and John Cannon then married Victoria ( Linda Cristal ), the daughter of the powerful neighbouring rancher Don Sebastián Montoya, in what is initially a marriage of convenience.
The device was conceived by Edward Cummings, a rancher from Montana, who suggested that a hazing device could be tuned to a radio collar's frequency ; after discussions with ranchers, the specifications of the device were designed and prototyped by Dr. John Shivik, then with the United States Department of Agriculture, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center.
Glenn became a cattle rancher, and in 1868 moved to Jacinto, then in Colusa County, California.

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* 1886 The city of Plainview has its beginnings when sheep rancher Zachery Taylor Maxwell moves his family and 2, 000 sheep from Floyd County to the site of two hackberry groves on the old military trail established by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie.
The area generally became known as Rimrock in 1926 when Virginia Finnie, the daughter of a prominent local rancher, started a dude ranch which she appropriately named Rimrock Guest Ranch.
It was founded in 1879, when rancher Daniel B. Budd and his partner Hugh McKay came with a thousand head of cattle from Nevada hoping to ship them, but got caught instead in severe winter weather in the Green River Valley.
Offended when Lewt reneges on a promise to marry her, Pearl takes up with Sam Pierce ( Charles Bickford ), a neighboring rancher who is smitten with her.
She was a critic of President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal and was one of the first to call for his resignation over the affair, although she admitted that she had carried on a six-year illicit romance with married rancher Vernon Ravenscroft, when she worked for his natural-resources consulting firm during the 1980s.
In 2005, after a court ruled that ranchers could not shoot wolves caught attacking livestock, the Associated Press reported that " Sharon Beck, an Eastern Oregon rancher and former president of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association, said the ruling leaves ranchers little recourse but to break the law -- known around the West as ' shoot, shovel and shut up ' -- when wolves move into their areas ".
The area was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway and pioneer rancher Ezra Riley at the beginning of the 20th century, when Riley Park was used for horse pasture.
Yarrington's accusations of his criminal activities began in November 2011, when the slain body of a businessman and rancher named Alfonso Peña-Argüelles was publicly displayed in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
Beef producers acknowledge that rough handling methods should be avoided when animals are being sent to slaughter, and that it is to the benefit of the rancher to study ways to manage animals in a calm manner without rough handling and which can calmly direct animals in the desired direction without excessive force or excitement.

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Emmett and Jake learn from their sister's husband — the land agent for the area — that cattle rancher Ethan McKendrick ( Ray Baker ) is illegally attempting to maintain the open range by driving all lawful claimants off the land, abetted by Sheriff Cobb ( Brian Dennehy ), an old associate of Paden.

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Carl Dill was neither a rancher nor a valley man.
For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.
Even as he became widely known as a professional killer, nearly every cowboy and rancher in Wyoming seemed proud to call him a friend.
Seated near it with his back to the door was the rancher, Ed Dunn.
The rancher grunted an acknowledgement but didn't move.
The rancher was trembling.
Resisting the overwhelming temptation to flng himself out of that bristling death-trap, Tilghman deliberately engaged the nervous rancher in trivial conversation for a good ten minutes.
It was a difficult and ambiguous kind of negotiation, even though the rancher was said to be expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their language.
The rancher was navigating his way across the flatland.
`` The buggers love shade '', the rancher said.
They stayed with a rancher Friday night and by eleven o'clock Saturday morning passed the old Garnett Lee ranch.
There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.
Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, the son of Muriel Gertrude ( née Gould ) and Charles William Mumy, Sr., a cattle rancher.
His father, who was a cattle rancher, carefully invested his son's income, and thereby avoided problems encountered by other child actors of his period.
The required funds were supplied by a rancher named Donald McCoy, who became the film's producer.
In July 2004, a rancher near San Antonio, Texas, killed a hairless dog-like creature, which was attacking his livestock.
He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.
Then in 1996, Warner Glenn, a rancher and hunting guide from Douglas, Arizona, came across a jaguar in the Peloncillo Mountains and became a jaguar researcher, placing webcams which recorded four more Arizona jaguars.
While approaching San Diego, Kearny sent a rancher ahead to notify Commodore Stockton of his presence.
The rancher, Edward Stokes, returned with 39 American troops and information that several hundred Mexican dragoons under Capt.
However, contemporary records show that his grandfather, Lafayette Waterbury, was a veterinarian, not a rancher, and was not wealthy.
Gell-Mann also is an avid birdwatcher, a collector of antiquities, rancher, and a keen linguist.
López soon became the largest landowner and cattle rancher in the country, amassing a fortune, which he augmented with the state's monopoly profits from the yerba maté trade.
* Evergreen Cemetery – Located on the south side of town, there are over 50, 000 people interred ; it is the home of the infamous tall " Jesus with cowboy boots " statue and grave marker, as well as the resting place of banker / philanthropist William J. McDonald, Confederate General / U. S. Senator Sam Bell Maxey, rancher Pitts Chisum, and cotton magnate John J. Culbertson.

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