During their stay Yaqui Indians attack the village, and a trainman's uniform is found on one of the dead Indians. Discovering that an infant is the only survivor, the men stop for milk at a cantina owned by Mama Delores, a fiery widow who has long been trying to get Reese to marry her. With Trampas tagging along, the Rangers happen upon a train that has been robbed. The rivalry over Carmelita leads to a series of brawls that ends only when Ranger boss Captain Parmalee sends his three men to hunt down a gang of bandits at the Mexican border. During a return stopover in Laredo, Trampas becomes enamored of Carmelita Flanagan, a saloon owner who is also being eyed by three Texas Rangers, Chad, Reese, and Riley. Happy to oblige, the ramrod sends Trampas on his first cattle drive and then assigns him to join three other cowhands in transporting a prize bull from a Mexican village back to the Shiloh Ranch. Somewhere along the way, the Rangers begin to suspect it was the Yaquis who robbed the train-but Yaquis don't rob trains and they have no use for money.and where did they get those fancy new rifles?įorced to leave a Western town for gambling with loaded dice, a young maverick cowboy named Trampas makes his way to the Shiloh Ranch and asks the ramrod for a job. They get the baby to Mama Dolores, but not without run-ins with Mexican Urales and marauding Yaquis. ![]() Concerned the baby won't survive long without care, they proceed across the Rio Grande to the nearest town, where they know of a cantina owner with innumerable children. When they find the train, however, they quickly forget their quarrels-the train was robbed and everyone aboard killed, except for one infant covered by his mother's body. Without much choice, Trampas wryly agrees. The Rangers, learning Trampas is headed in the same direction they are, suggest they all ride together-that way, they can fight him after they have fulfilled their mission. He's on his way out of town when he runs into the three Rangers-who turn out to be partners-on their way to track down a missing train carrying a payroll. Unlike D'Artagnan, he has no notion of actually fighting the Rangers: all he wants is out of Laredo. Despite the warning, in a western version of the Dumas classic, "The Three Musketeers", Trampas manages to get himself engaged to fight three separate Texas Rangers within an hour of his arrival. The ranch foreman warns him to watch out for himself in Laredo, a tough town on the Texas/Mexican border. Construction on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed in 1977.Trampas, a cowhand from Medicine Bow, Wyoming, is sent to Mexico to buy a bull for his employer. While the expedition received international attention, Humble suspended its icebreaking tanker project on October 21, 1970, to focus on the pipeline alternative. Dobbs was named 1969 Newsfilm Cameraman of the Year for his photography. The resulting television special, entitled Passage to Prudhoe, aired on Houston's Channel 2 on November 8, 1969. A KPRC news crew was aboard to document the ship's historic journey through the frozen Arctic. Entering the Amundsen Gulf on September 14, the Manhattan became the first commercial vessel to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage. Humble commissioned the $52-million expedition to test the operational and economic feasibility of the maritime route. On August 26, the SS Manhattan-fresh from a six-month modification program to turn the ordinary tanker into an icebreaker-departed a shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania, for Prudhoe Bay. ![]() The latter would require tanker ships to traverse the icy waters of the Northwest Passage. The second, proposed by Humble Vice President Stanley Haas, imagined an additional sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago to the US east coast. ![]() The first, a joint venture with ARCO and British Petroleum, envisioned a pipeline route from Prudhoe Bay to the southern port city of Valdez for subsequent ocean shipment to markets along the US west coast. The company then began planning how to transport crude oil produced by the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field to the continental United States and beyond. On March 12, 1968, the Houston-based Humble Oil and Refining Company confirmed the presence of oil on Alaska's North Slope. Produced by Ray Miller for KPRC News, this 1969 television documentary chronicles the historic voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage.
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