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Abilene Reporter-News is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, US.

The newspaper started publishing as the weekly Abilene Reporter, helmed by Charles Edwin Gilbert on June 17, 1881, just three months after Abilene was founded.

It is hence the oldest continuous business in the city.

It became a daily newspaper in 1885.

The Big Country is a 1958 American epic Western film directed by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston and Burl Ives.

The supporting cast features Charles Bickford and Chuck Connors.

The picture was based on the serialized magazine novel Ambush at Blanco Canyon by Donald Hamilton.

and was co-produced by Wyler and Peck.

The opening title sequence was created by Saul Bass.

The film is one of very few pictures in which Heston plays a major supporting role instead of the lead.

Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

Geographically located in the south central part of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast.

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest or simply the Midwest, is one of the four geographic regions defined by the United States Census Bureau, occupying the northern central part of the United States of America.

It was officially named the North Central region by the Census Bureau until 1984.