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Show Page 70 peeping into a past that cannot return. Live Two Bar cattle are conspicuously absent. The winds have buried all the dead ones. Those round-up days are over. . . . The writer Thomas Wolfe said, "You can't go home again. For Ann, it was true. Ann Bassett was not a saint. She was a complex woman, a woman of unconquerable will and flashing spirit, a woman born too early for her time. Because of this, Ann not only was destined to be different, she dared to be different. She tackled the West in its roughest, toughest days-and won. "I don't want to wear dresses and I don't want to be a lady- I want to be a cowboy." Indeed Ann Bassett was unique. She was both. THE END |