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- <text id=90TT0098>
- <title>
- Jan. 08, 1990: Died:Thomas Blasingame
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 08, 1990 When Tyrants Fall
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 68
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- <body>
- <p> DIED. Thomas Blasingame, 91, believed to be the oldest
- working cowboy in Texas; in Goodnight, Texas. A bowlegged
- cowpoke, he started his career in 1916 at the JA Cattle Co.
- ranch for $30 a month and worked under the searing sun for the
- next seven decades. Blasingame was found lying on his back near
- a creek, his hands folded on his chest, his horse nearby--the
- way he said in a newspaper interview last summer he wanted to
- die.
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- </body>
- </article>
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