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Cattlemen vs Sheepherders : Five Decades of Violence in the West [Revised Edition]
Cattlemen vs Sheepherders Five Decades of Violence in the West - Revised Edition Author:Bill O'Neal "... and engrossing tale that encompasses a variety of hostilities across the entire West" -- Fred Egloff, Booklist. — From the 1870s until the 1920s cattlemen and sheepmen clashed bitterly for rangeland in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. During five decades of irregular but vicious warfare, scores of... more » attacks were launched by cattlemen, at least twenty-eight sheepmen and sixteen cowboys were killed, and more than 53,000 sheep were shot, clubbed, knifed, poisoned, dynamited, and rimrocked. The fifty year conflict was waged in a magnificent arena of mountains and plains, a classic story of murderous aggression and retribution that forms one of the great dramas.« less