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...Gaucho. A "Gaucho" is a South American cowboy of Spanish-Indian extraction. There is a legend about one of these Gauchos who became an outlaw and galloped through the mountains at the head of a reckless ragged army. Eventually, this legend came to the ears of Douglas Fairbanks. The inevitable occurred. First scenarios, then sets, extras, cameras, fade-outs, cuttings, retakes. By this time the Gaucho was no longer a legend; he had turned into a very real little man, smoking cigarets incessantly, leaping gymnastically from banister to balustrade, smiling gaily and with buoyant naivete...
...Chisholm Trail", the imminent production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, derives it name from a cowboy song of the 'seventies, "The Old Chisholm Trail." This ballard, of unknown authorship, was sung on the range from the Rio Grande to the Manitoba border...
...when E.W. North was a young cowboy riding for Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill), he used this gun to make the last sanctioned killing of wild buffalo on the short grass lands of Nebraska...
Juror Kidwell, a sallow youngish man, is not what Washingtonians would call a "drugstore cowboy" and certainly not a "street sheik" just a chinless young man with prominent eyes and ears Who rather en joyed his sudden importance His soft-drink cronies would ask him about the trial and he welcomed the opportunity to give what he considered dark hints of mysterious grandeur. He would say that Harry Sinclair was a "nice, democratic guy in spite of all his money" He would say that he, Edward Kidwell was a "pretty good yes-and-no-man" and that he was "just...
Elsa excused herself, told herself the union was for practical reasons. If she had been willing to go on as a grubbing farm girl, she insisted in her thoughts, she would have married an employe of the Carews, an eerie cowboy with a magic guitar whose dynamic physique had created a great longing in her. Bayliss meant external luxury, and she took him in form only. But the capitulation of sensitive women to such men as the Mad Carews is as inevitable as the failure of crops in Elders Hollow, the Bowers' poor farm land, be the men tenfold...