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Sat 11 Nov 2008Welcome to the Wild West
Ever wanted to be a cowboy? Liam Stebbingvisits two ranches in Oklahoma and Kansas, where everyone seems to carry a gun and Barack Obama is a delicate subject
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is wide and slow as it passes Tulsa, on its way to join the Mississippi and flow, eventually, into the Gulf of Mexico. If you cross it on Oklahoma State Highway 97, then turn and head west by Fisher Creek, following the railroad track where double-stacked, six-engined freight trains that are two kilometres long wind through town, hooting their way from Chicago to Los Angeles, you come to the turn for Meadowlake Ranch.
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