In the movie Open Range, Charley Waite (Kevin Costner) and Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall) are free-grazing cattlemen, wandering the wild terrains of the American West. Their peaceful existence is disrupted by Denton Baxter (Michael Gambon), a land baron who despises their free-ranging lifestyle...
intelligence and working abilities make him a prized worker for farmers. They can be trained to drive cattle and guard stock from predators. Thanks to the efforts of John D. Johnson of Summerville, Georgia, the American Bulldog exists today. After Johnson returned from WWII he was disappointed...
Sleeping sickness in humans and a group of cattle diseases that are widespread in Africa, and known as are caused by protozoan trypanosomes transmitted by the bites of tsetse flies. Bacteria-caused diseases tularemia can be spread by deer fly bites, the bubonic plague by fleas, and the epidemi...
A cleft had been made in the rock for the first intended sluice-work, which was not finished, but whereby art has created the most imposing of all Trollhaetta’s Falls; the hurrying water falling here perpendicularly into the black deep. The side of the rock is here placed in connection...
I don’t know why I found it weird, I suppose mostly because when us northerners think of Texas we imagine flat, oil fields and sprawling cattle ranches, but the area south and west of Austin is anything but flat, it’s downright beautifully scenic. Lake Travis Needing a little grub ...
His usual tactic was to put his paws on your leg and ejecting his sharp claws until you pet him. And, of course, it wasn’t just Andrew and me who were object of his demands, but anyone in the house. Sirius and Zephyr almost getting along Curly ribbon He was already older when we...
The bunny is very close to that in her sister's Easter pictures. Here is a picture of Ryleigh and her bunny, Sally! (All her animals are girls named Sally, except for "black dog", which is really brown... Darlene HONEY BUNNY BEE COLLECTOR PIECE We are artists that sell life like...
@matthewc23 - Good questions. Actually, many of the leguminous trees display the typical characteristics whereas the garden plants don't always have them. The most common or well-known legume trees in America are the honeylocust, black locust, acacia, and redbud. Hopefully you're familiar with...
They went on to breed them to suit a few specific criteria to suit their needs like racing, working cattle, recreational activities, and so on, in a better way. In these regions, the local horses that existed were primarily the crosses of the local animals and the feral breeds that had ...
Destry Rides Again*, George Marshall (1939, USA). If there’s one story which appears again and again in Western films, it’s the lone hero who cleans up a town under the corrupt thumb of the local cattle baron. Given the bad name cattle barons have in Western literature – which is...