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739 wordsHow they started Cattle Cowboys Cowboys How they started Cattle ranchers began to move out onto the Great Plains in the mid 1800? s In the late 1800? s cowboys became popular in the cattle industry. The American cowboys owe their knowledge of how to tame the cattle to vaqueros (the Mexican cowboys). The animals originally were from the ranches in southern Texas formerly operated by Spaniards and Mexicans. The cowboys often called the wild cattle longhorns, which were the huge herds of wild cattl...
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Salary Cap Super Bowl
479 wordsCowboys Release Deion Sanders IRVING, Texas (Reuters) The Dallas Cowboys released flashy star cornerback Deion Sanders Friday but did not rule out the possibility of re-signing him to a restructured contract. The announcement that the dynamic cornerback and kick returner had been cut was posted on the teams web site and was not unexpected as the Cowboys needed to free up room under the salary cap. Deion was a great player for us. He was a major contributor in our Super Bowl team and he has been ...
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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
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1,784 wordsA family torn apart by war. It is the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the tension is building both on the battlefield and at home. Tim Meeker, a common farm-boy, has a brother, Sam, which he has always looked up to. However, one day Sam and his father, Life, get into an argument about the war that is raging on. Both of their tempers flare and consequently Sam leaves home and joins the Patriots to fight the oncoming British troops. His father greatly disapproves of Sam s actions because he...
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Proud To Be An American Brown Bess
1,971 wordsMy Brother Sam is Dead Author: by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Category: Historical Fiction Summary: It starts out in the 1770 s during the Revolution War and Samuel Meeker or Sam for short just interred the room of the tavern and he chimes in to everybody who is waiting to eat, he comes in saying where beating the Lobster Backs. His father, Eliphalet Meeker but called Life for short, starts arguing with son. After a while they calmed down and change the subject. Finally Tim Mee...
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