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Posted by mjbrown on October 27, 2006 at 13:51:59 from (64.179.15.84):
In Reply to: Re: Farm Pictures posted by IaGary on October 26, 2006 at 17:19:35:
The big cattle operations had had unlimited use of open range for years, then the gommint started parceling out the land to homesteaders who were farmers (sodbusters). The farmers were putting up fence which the cattlemen would cut. The cattlemen claimed all the unbranded calves etc. The cattlemen would try to have farmers prosecuted as cattle thieves but there were more farmers than cattlemen so farmers were on the juries and always voted to acquit. Exasperated, the cattlemen hired an ex Pinckerton agent named Tom Horn to come in and dispense some frontier justice with his (then new) Winchester .30-.30. Most of the guys Horn picked off were genuine cow and horse thieves but someone shot the young son of a farmer and Horn was blamed and got the long drop, short rope treatment. That's the short version.
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