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...happy day for Cowboy James when he sent in his first story, with pictures by himself, to Scribner's Magazine. It was accepted. He decided he had had enough cowpunching, that it would be more satisfying to write about it and draw pictures to match...
From then on Cowboy Will went it alone. With plenty of confidence, with more than ordinary experience for his years, he had no difficulty finding jobs as a cowpuncher. Like all his breed he was a journeyman worker; from Canada to Mexico he wandered the West. After he had begun to be known as a writer, a cowboy critic once accused him of writing a fake cowboy language, but Author James explains his variations of speech by his many changes of scenery. Only his outfit and his style of riding, says he, never changed...
From childhood, says Cowboy James, he liked to draw pictures, mostly of animals. He never drew from life, always from memory. Says he: ''People often ask me how I get to catch horses in action, or how I get my models for my drawings and paintings. I've never sketched from life and never watched any animals with intentions of sketching it. And to the people who ask I say that I get my models through my tail bone, and from the many connections it got with the cantle-board of my saddle." He claims never to have...
...John Goodman, Omaha cowboy golfer who put Jones out of the National Amateur in the first round last year at Pebble Beach, arrived in a car with a trailer, asked a man near the Interlachen club if he could camp on his estate. The householder recognized Goodman, welcomed him, ran his garden hose down to the trailer. Goodman tied with Horton Smith for the lowest first-nine score of the tournament, a 33, slumped thereafter, but finished in a tie for ninth place ahead of Walter Hagen...
...declined the nomination. He was Mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif., until a new state law made it a "city of the sixth class" and Rogers "mayor emeritus." President Wilson said that he found Rogers' remarks "not only humorous ... but illuminating." In 1919 he published his first book. The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference, which contains his famed quip: "It says in there [the Peace Covenant] 'There is to be no more wars.' And then there is a paragraph further down telling you where to get your ammunition in case there was one." Worth more than...