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Travis Rutland 1900 -- 1993

   Rutland and the move to national and international journalism:

    He was the GreenScarf man with the long-running GreenScarf column.

     In the mid 1920s, Father and daughter, Edgar Fellowes jr and Melinda, took him up. They owned a string of farm community newspapers in the west. She, had ambitions. Continues >>> format best for READING ON A PHONE >>>

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FURTHER ON RUTLAND  

Around 1690 a man possibly named Og Smith robbed a coach in wild country in England’s northernmost county, Northumberland. He came away with ‘several bars of gold’.

          History does not recount the size of the bars. Family lore had it that he spent money on new and grand suiting, a passport with the name William (royal) and Rutland (a county of particularly rich aristocratic seats)..

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Where lie the roots of our green discontent?

This was asked by Travis Rutland later in his life -- he lived to 94 and died in 1994.

 

Cottonwoods near the Rutland cabin

in Nevada high desert,

discovered by Francine Olnay in 2018.

 

 

 

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