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– A rainmaker hired by the citizens of Dalhart, Texas for five hundred dollars “to squeeze the clouds” with “a combination of TNT and nitro-glycerin.” He sent explosives into the sky to try and make it rain—and it did indeed snow afterwards, but it also snowed in other places that didn’t use his method.
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Tex Thornton Character Timeline in The Worst Hard Time
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Chapter 14: Showdown in Dalhart
...People in Dalhart also wanted to test the theory and contributed money to the effort. Tex Thornton was hired to “squeeze the clouds.” They paid him five hundred dollars altogether, and he...
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Chapter 17: A Call to Arms
Dalhart citizens also still believed that they could blast rain from the clouds, and enlisted Tex Thornton to do so. Tex exploded dynamite for several days, to no avail. On the fourth...
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