Junie Ooley had drawn herself up, the eyes shining in her heaven-sent face, and told him that she was flattered by the proposal, flattered and moved, deeply moved, but that she just wasn't ready to commit to something like that, like marriage, that is, what with him being a Shetland sheepman and she an American woman with a college degree, and a rover at that.
Mr. Forbush also recalls with relish the case of a sheepman who annihilated the crows in his region because they killed newborn lambs, only to discover that the grass in his pastures was dying from white grubs, which had increased rapidly following the destruction of the crows.
Some of Ford's most notable film performances were in Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), The Sheepman (1958), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), for which he won a Golden Globe Award as best actor, and The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), which spawned a television series of the same name.
Marshall next made westerns centred on, variously, a cavalry scout fighting Indians (Pillars of the Sky, 1956), an army deserter teaching women how to fight Indians (The Guns of Fort Petticoat, 1957), and a sheep rancher and a cattle baron who love the same woman (The Sheepman, 1958).
At his busiest in the 1950s and 1960s, Ford moved smoothly from the serious rodeo drama The Violent Men (1955) and the horse opera The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) to the biopic operatics of Interrupted Melody (1955) as the husband of a Wagnerian soprano stricken with polio, to the comedy western The Sheepman (1958) opposite Shirley Maclaine.
In the 1970s, sheepmen suffered a public pummelling over the use of poisons.
It remained unsettled until 1835, when a group of Tasmanian sheepmen (the Port Phillip Association) defied a government ban on settlement and moved large flocks to the district.
Peopled by gunmen, gamblers, and transients, Cheyenne developed a low reputation during the days of the Vigilantes and the war between cattlemen and sheepmen.
Mr. Etcheverry is one of the last Basque sheepmen left in the American West, where there were once hundreds, if not thousands, like him.
Boise is in the sheep country and Basques are great sheepmen.
