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Thomas Everett Blasingame, known as Tom Blasingame (February 12, 1898 - December 27, 1989),〔(Social Security Death Index Interactive Search )〕 was a Texas cowboy for seventy-three years. At ninety-one, he was still on the job at the JA Ranch south of Amarillo. Two days after Christmas in 1989, he dismounted his horse, Ruidosa, stretched out on the grass, folded his arms across his chest, and died.〔(Tom Blasingame )〕 Blasingame received many honors for his longevity and dedication to ranching. Born in Waxahachie, the seat of Ellis County, south of Dallas, Blasingame decided as a child that he would work on a ranch. In 1918, he headed to the Texas Panhandle and was hired on the large JA spread, which had been jointly established in the Palo Duro Canyon by John George Adair (1823–1885) and Charles Goodnight (1836–1929), probably the best-known of Texas ranchers throughout history.〔Exhibit at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon〕 ==Ranching experiences== Before he settled permanently at the JA, Blasingame worked for a time on ranches in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Blasingame said that he moved about during the 1920s so that he could see the country. Working for different ranches was the only way a poor man could travel, he said. He described life on the ranch accordingly: Blasingame here describes his experiences training horses: Back at the JA, Blasingame lived on Campbell Creek in a camp house without electricity during the week and came to Claude, the seat of Armstrong County east of Amarillo and north of the ranch, on weekends to see his wife, the former Eleanor Aloe Morris (May 26, 1914 - October 3, 1999),〔 the daughter of a neighboring rancher whom he married on November 2, 1933. At the time of her death, Eleanor was living in Boise, Idaho, the city of residence of her son, Thomas White Blasingame (born ca. 1936), and her daughter, Nancy B. Etheridge (born ca. 1946). She hence outlived her husband by nearly a decade. The Blasingames had four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.〔 Blasingame was not affiliated with a church but said that he had "read lots of books. Read the Bible a lot. I believe what the Bible says, but I don't reckon I'm religious. Even if I was, I couldn't go to church because I've got too much work to do."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Blasingame」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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