Sentences with phrase «cattle barons»

The first boom for the then territory's cattle barons in the late 1800s turned what had been luxuriant grasslands into desert scrub.

Some say the cattle barons...

Versatile and respected cattle barons such as Graham McCamley and Ashley Daley have decided to offer large holdings.

In 1905, cattle baron Walter Vail began buying vast acreage surrounding the town of Temecula.

Labor is demanding answers from the Prime Minister after Barnaby Joyce initially accepted a $ 40,000 donation from billionaire mining and cattle baron Gina Rinehart.

Rob H. Welder, south Texas cattle baron and oilman, drew up a will that proved to be an unusual document for Texas or, for that matter, any other state.

Thistle Hill (also known as the Wharton - Scott house) is a Georgian Revival - style mansion that was built during the cattle baron era in 1903/4.

Shirley MacLaine is a no - nonsense frontier girl who becomes the bone of contention between Ford and cattle baron Leslie Nielsen.

Cattle baron Clay Matthews is covertly masterminding stampedes of herds, hiring gunslingers for attacks on ranchers, cutting fences, grabbing lands - all part of a plan to establish a National Cattle Trail capable of handling a million - cattle drive from Texas to Canada.

Intelligent, deeply moving modern Western, set in 1946 New Mexico to which pre-war pardners Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup return from military service to discover suave cattle baron Sam Elliott is on his way to monopolising a mechanised corporate range.

A cattle baron and massive landowner in a town bearing his name in an unnamed territory that has hopes of becoming a state, G.W. is respected by some and disliked by others.

Making his way to the nearest town, Jake mixes it up with the locals, incurring the wrath of cattle baron Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford).

But in spite of his position, Cobb isn't much of a tyrant; he may be sheriff, but the cattle baron that's bribing him is the one that's really calling the shots.

The real stars are Rock Hudson (never better) and Elizabeth Taylor; he's a racist cattle baron who's the ultimate word in Texas excess and success, while she's the level - headed wife who (somewhat) tames his Southern vulgarities with her Eastern civility.

The local cattle baron is someone who calls himself Colonel Stephen Bedford (Leslie Nielsen), formerly a Texas gunslinger named Johnny Bledsoe and an old acquaintance of the reformed gunslinger Jason.

Mann brilliantly directs this ambitious psychological Western framed around a story similar to Shakespeare's King Lear (the cattle baron patriarch Donald Crisp is going blind like Gloucester and is obsessed with who will inherit his kingdom).

The Driskill's building started as the showplace of cattle baron Jess Driskill in 1886.

Not exact matches

Railroad access from Chicago made the area a popular summer retreat for the barons of wealth in lumber, cattle, oil, steel, cement, manufacturing, and durable goods (e.g., Morton Salt, Wrigley Chewing Gum), with mansions and large homes such as Stone Manor and Black Point built on the lake from the 1850s, through the heyday of the Roaring 20s, and up...

At the time B.C. was the only jurisdiction in Canada with that rule and the industry feared that wily Alberta Realtors, unfettered by notions of singular professionalism, would cross-border poach while relying on their other jobs as cattle ranchers and oil barons to supplement their income.