The Great Race

The Great RaceAt first glance, it is a scene from a Saturday-matinee two-reeler: Six men in cowboy hats and gambler's mustaches--thin black lines on the rim of the upper lip--sit at a table, drawling and plotting. Their leader, a slight figure in a vest, with a pronounced expression of cupidity stamped across his narrow face, listens but seldom speaks. One crony, doubtless a landowner who has caused wholesale numbers of sodbusters to haul off and bust sod elsewhere, is studying a map and working...