(1) he plays a gunfighter turned sodbuster(2) the Yankee sodbuster with his plough that broke the plains(3) Two-Dollar Bill and his gang had arrived in Goatswood, another boom town serving the hundreds of panhandlers and sodbusters coming into the territory to make their fortunes.(4) From the style of the cowboys and cattlemen, the film's chief antagonists, to the salt-of the-earth sodbusters , the film's look was often inspired by Frederic Remington's work.(5) Later, sodbusters would curse the tenacity of the area's gnarled trees and search for arable land elsewhere, leaving the timber to deer and squirrels.(6) It was a place for the many cowpunchers, panhandlers, and sodbusters to come in and enjoy themselves.(7) The alliance of South and West - Georgia planters and Illinois sodbusters - that had dominated American politics since Jefferson's day splintered, then collapsed.
