Bliss Lomax
1) Closed Range
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Wyoming's free range is in peril. The free rangers, led by the Catlin brothers, are accustomed to letting their cattle roam where the grass is green and water easy to come by. When they first spot the barbed wire barricades, blocking the herds' progress to the river, they are incensed. Tempers flare, bullets fly, and soon it's an all-out range war between the cattle barons and the little free-range outfits.
San Saba Lee, foreman of the prosperous...
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Throughout the length and breadth of the sun-bleached cow town of Mescal, Arizona, seethes an undercurrent of suppressed excitement. In front of the town's blacksmith shop a group of Mormon homesteaders gather about their potential leader, Webb Nichols, in grave discussion. In a lodge room the special meeting of the Magdalena Stockmen's Association, comprising the big cow outfits of the county, has turned into a deluge of hot words and very pointed...