September 2004
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09.21.04The Real McCoy Twenty nine year old Chicago stock dealer Joseph McCoy had an idea that eventually put millions of dollars into his bank account and his name in the dictionary of slang. He looked around to find a place where the cattle being herded from Texas could be bought together and fattened up and moved north and east for slaughter. Eventually he found a very small dead place, consisting of about one dozen log huts, low small rude affairs four fifths of which are covered with dirt. The town? Abilene. In 1867 the land around Abilene was settled watered and had excellent ...
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09.21.04BBC ON THIS DAY | 21 | 1979: Harrier crash kills t…BBC ON THIS DAY | 21 | 1979: Harrier crash kills three
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