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The Blue Ridge Wagon Train of 1982 traveled largely over paved roads but tried to recreate the cowboy experience of pioneer days for cowboy and wagon train enthusiasts. Although the route differed each year, it was a week long trek beginning at Millers Creek fairgrounds and culminating in a Fourth of July celebration in West Jefferson, some forty-five miles away. Participants could ride horses, ponies, or mules or drive wagons or carts, although many used campers and motor vehicles for transporting provisions and for sleeping. Other riders and wagons joined along the way and people would stand on porches to wave as the train passed. When it rained, participants banded together, sharing supplies but even the knee-deep mud was a welcome part of the experience.
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The United States Senate seniority rule, appoints committee chairmen according to length of service and not capability, and some less than qualified senators were appointed chairmen prior to 1975. In 1941, newspapers including: THE RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, THE CHARLOTTE TIMES, and THE NEW YORK TIMES, spoke out against the potential appointment of NC Sen. Robert Rice Reynolds, next in line to take over the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. Although Reynolds was a New Dealer, his views on foreign policy earned him the unfair but powerful designation of pro-Nazi, and many North Carolinians wrote letters to Congress urging that Reynolds not be confirmed as chairman.
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