Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 13, 2005 Page: 39 of 42
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COLORADO—Raised in Eagle (pop.
3,032), jockey Pat Day started his career as a
rodeo cowboy. Convinced that his 4-feet, 11-
inch stature would serve him well as a jockey,
he switched to horseracing in 1973. He won the
Eclipse Award for outstanding jockey in 1984,
1986,1987 and 1991, and was inducted into the
Racing Hall of Rune in 1991-
Composer Cecil Effinger, of Colorado Springs,
invented the musical typewriter in 1954, a ma-
chine that allowed composers to create musi-
cal scores by typing notes rather than writing
their compositions out by hand. He went on to
found the Music Print Corp. to manufacture
and sell his invention.
MONTANA—Families and community
organizations spend months getting their seed
art entries ready for the Richland County Fair
in Sidney (pop. 4,774) each summer. Created by
gluing seeds, pinecones, wool and other natural
materials in place, the intricate designs feature
agricultural themes.
In southwestern Montana, Beaverhead Rock, a
formation that looks like the head of a swim-
ming beaver, gave its name to a state park, a
river and a county. Dillon (pop 3,752), the seat
of Beaverhead County, is about 15 miles south
of the formation.
NEW MEXICO—Established in the 1860s
after gold was discovered nearby, Elizabethtown
was the states first incorporated town and Colfax
County's (pop 14,189) first county seat. Named
after one of the founders’ daughters, "E-town"
boasted 7,000 people, seven saloons, three dance
halls, five stores, a school and two churches by
1870. Today, only ruins, i) general store and a
museum remain.
During die heyday of travel along Route 66,
from Chicago to Los Angeles, hundreds of
billboards promoted “Tucumcari Tonite!”—a
town of 2,000 motel rooms. A favorite over-
night stopping point in years past, Tucumcari
(pop. 5,989) is experiencing a resurgence of
tourism with the renewed popularity of travel
on the historic highway.
OKLAHOMA—A native of Claiemote
(pop 15,873), singer Patti Page's biggest hit
was Tennessee Waltz, which has sold 10 million
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copies since its release in 1950. Page was born
Clara Ann Fowler on Nov. 8, 1927. At age 18,
she earned a place as a singer on a 15-minute
KTUL radio program in Tulsa sponsored by
the Page Milk Co., which helped inspire her
name change. Her other hits included Confess
and Old Cape Cod.
On a site 3.5 miles northeast of Checotah (pop.
3,481), the Civil War Battle of Honey Springs
took [dace on July 17,1863. With about 9,000
soldiers engaged, it was the largest battle
fought in Oklahoma, then the Indian Territory,
during the war. After the battle. Union forces
controlled all of the Indian Territory north of
the Arkansas River.
TEXAS—A golden retriever named Angie
set a Guinness World Record for the most tennis
balls in a dog’s mouth on July 6, 2003, when he
gathered and held onto five regulation-size balls.
Owned by a Dallas family, Augie previously won
the “Beggin' Strips Stupid Dog Tricks Contest."
His reward was a trip to New York City to
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turing the segment “Stupid Ret Tricks."
Known for the intricate gingerbread details
on many of its tum-of-the-century buildings,
Waxahachie (pop 21,426) frequently has been
used as a movie location. Bonnie and Clyde, co-
written by Robert Benton, who was bom there
in 1932, was filmed in the Ellis County town
in 1967, followed by productions of The Trip to
Bountiful, Tender Merries and Plaits in the Heart,
which Benton wrote and directed.
WYOMING—In Campbell County (pop
33,698), pronghorn outnumber humans. Com-
monly called antelope, pronghorn aren’t actu-
ally members of the antelope family. Scientifi-
cally, they are identified as Anttlocapra americana,
which means the “American goat-antelope.”
The name of Wyomir^'s Star Valley comes from
Starvation or Starve Valley, a name the area
gained during bitter winters in the late 1880s.
Many cattle were lost in the severe winter of 1889,
when more than. 40 inches of snow fell during
two days and nights in March. Among the towns
in the valley, which lies between- the Salt River
Range in western Wyoming and the Webster
Range in eastern Idaho, are Alton (pop 1,818),
Alpine (pop 550X and Thayne (pop 341). ^
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Hill, Earl Clyde, Jr. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 13, 2005, newspaper, September 13, 2005; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth767686/m1/39/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rains County Library.