THE CALL OF THE LAND 



places every bite of grass that cows got had 

 to be saved for them by Winchester rifles. 

 One old ranger said he was "tired of sleep- 

 ing with a Winchester for a pillow." 



The cattlemen of a county, a valley, or 

 any neighborhood forming a natural unity, 

 made common cause against outsiders. The 

 Brown's Park Ranchmen's Association of 

 Colorado, in a published resolution, claimed 

 that "the pasturage by rights belongs to the 

 people residing in the community, and that 

 they, and they alone, are entitled to the use 

 of it." The resolution added: "To deprive 

 us of, or abridge our existing privileges is 

 to take away from us our inalienable rights 

 to the pursuit of health and happiness guar- 

 anteed us in the Great Declaration of Prin- 

 ciples and Constitution of the United States, 

 and we will hold as public and private ene- 

 mies any man or set of men, in Congress or 

 out, who will in any way change or alter 

 existing range conditions or abridge our 

 range rights in any way whatsoever to the 

 use of the public domain." 



There are always plenty of nomad herd- 



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