Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Art Chapman column: 'UNKNOWN COWBOY'.

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Byline: Art Chapman

Jun. 17--NOCONA -- On a lonely hilltop south of the Red River in Montague County, a dry wind flutters two small flags on their wire posts. They are markers more than flags, the kind that usually point to underground utility lines. But these show where a rectangular concrete headstone has gone missing.

It was a simple stone, the kind seen all over this tiny cemetery northwest of Nocona. It marked the burial spot for a ranch cowboy. He worked less than a full day for the ranch and was killed in a fall from a bucking horse and buried. No one knew his name.

The stone, stolen in the last few weeks, read plainly, "Unknown Cowboy."

"It's probably sitting in some...

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