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Alliance with Baronies. Archie Parr, a six-bit-a-day cowboy turned politician, started the empire on June 18, 1911. It was election day and there was blood in the dusty street of tiny San Diego, county seat of Duval County; gun-packing "Anglos," bent on rule by the gun, shot down three local Mexicans. Archie Parr, who spoke Spanish, took the side of the Mexicans. After that, in the old Mexican tradition, he reigned as their jefe-the man who solved their problems and gave them orders. He voted the people-and in return he gave Duval County Latin...
When he went abroad, two dark-skinned, cowboy-booted bodyguards were seldom far away. To the Mexicans of Duval County he represented both love and fear. Like his father he spoken fluent Spanish, almost invariably named a full slate of Latin Americans for the voters to elect. The sick, the jobless, the unlucky were seldom turned away from Parr's air-conditioned office. Duval County got good roads (built by George Parr's road company). He took care of important friends even more dramatically; one Thomas Y. Pickett, named as county oil evaluator (a job which takes...
...Cologne's Kaiserhof Theater. Their eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped his mother to the "windmill" and gave it a gentle push to start it rotating. Behind the windmill were six pingpong balls balanced on tall pillars, and the idea was that Aal, dressed to kill in cowboy suit and ten-gallon hat, would knock down the targets with his .22-caliber rifle by shooting past his wife's rotating body, like a machine-gun firing through an airplane propeller. To the audience, sitting below stage level, it looked as if Aal were attempting the impossible...
...Round Rock.Texas (pop. 1,400) would probably never have had a jail if Sam Bass, the train robber, had not come to town on July 19, 1878 to hold up the Williamson County Bank. "Sam Bass," in the words of a mournful cowboy ballad, "was born in Indiana, it was his native home, and at the age of seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock...
...boot and was hauling him out from under the bed. Paying me no attention, the vigilantes did their man in with no mercy at all. He was riddled with at least a hundred bullets to the tune of "bang . . . bang . . . bang ... I gotcha ... I gotcha ..." I thought the cowboy had been finished off, but he staggered to his feet, jerked loose and dashed for the stairs and freedom in the backyard. The chase was on again - this time outside...