The American dream or whatever happened to Miss Ellie?The US brewing industry and the family silver
J.R. Ewing, TV’s most infamous Texan oil tycoon, would chase anything in a skirt, but his heart belonged to Mummy back home on the Southfork Ranch. Emigrants whether they were farmers, adventurers or gold diggers, pursued the American Dream which beckoned with promises of freedom, power, success. Ultimately they married a Miss Ellie, because those who had made their fortune wanted sons and a dynasty.