Jasper itself, a five-minute cab ride from the hotel, is the proverbial one-horse town.

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Mr Holden is from a one-horse town, Birch Tree, while his opponent, Jim Talent, is from the St Louis sprawl.

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After two nights in the one-horse town of San - one tarred road, one half-decent hotel, no supermarket, lots of dust - I felt I deserved some good luck.

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