Roper’s Border War with Thorpe and Tanner
Dusty King and Lew Gordon's sprawling ranches face Ben Thorpe's lawless domination across Texas to the Big Horn. Bill Roper builds a renegade crew of young gunmen, aiming to draw Thorpe and Tanner into a border clash by driving thousands of cattle across the Dry Saddle Crossing and forcing a decisive showdown.
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Dusty King
Lew Gordon
King-Gordon
Texas
Montana
Ben Thorpe
Roper
Cleve Tanner
Bill Roper
Dry Camp Pierce
Dusty
King Gordon
Thorpe
Pierce
Thorpe-Tanner
Whipper Forks
Bik Roper
Dry Saddle Crossing
Lee Harnish
Chihuahua
Mexico City
Hamish
Tanner
Roper Plans a Cattle War to Regain Graham Range
In a July Willow Creek meeting, Bill Roper outlines a plan to reclaim Bob Graham’s range from Cleve Tanner. He offers a half share to gunmen if they help seize and hold the land, with lawyers capable of delaying rivals and Rangers, and vows to topple Tanner and Thorpe through coordinated action.
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Roper
Bill Roper
Fred Maxim
San Antonio
Maxim
Graham
Bob Graham
Cleve Tanner
Taylor
Graves
Ben Thorpe
Willow Creek
King Gordon
Bigspring
Tanner
Rangers
Nate Liggett
Bill
Texas
Desert Warning Sparks Texas Cattle Clash and Trail Herd Movements
In early August heat, Tanner men confront raiders at the Graham ranch while distant riders herd trailing cattle. Across Texas, unrest spreads with cattlemen sensing a coordinated disruption from the Rio Grande to the Pecos region as the border and drought drive tensions and movements.
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Graham Ranch
Texas
Bob Graham
Graham Corral
Nate Liggett
Parrot motif tea towels with panholders for home chores
Monday through Thursday sets feature an industrious parrot guiding efficient household routines. Designs include applique Polly, outlined motifs, and a parrot in a cage. The transfer image costs 15 cents, offering parrot tea towel and panholder motifs in a set that stamps more than once. Order details follow.
Household Plints and Kitchen Tips From a Bygone Era
This readable fragment offers practical household notes: keep inflammables in safe containers, explains jelly texture issues from sugar or overcooking, describes fried mush with fried chicken, and shows how to mold mush in loaf pans then brown. It also covers bone roast shopping, using bones for soups, pretzel crumb covering for cheese balls, pretzel freshness steps, and towel weave differences.
Brown and the Bus, a New Cook Revealed
A rainy bus ride ends with Brown discovering his new cook. A buxom passenger jokes about sitting on a knee, then confesses she is the woman Brown expects at home as he learns she will be his new cook.
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Brown
100 ton glass furnace pours record melt in Detroit plant
The Detroit plant produced a continuous melt of 58 485 tons in a single operation over two years and one day, creating a 51 inch wide glass sheet that would stretch 2 400 miles if uncut, setting a world record reported by Collier's.
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Detroit
Collier’s
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