The writer himself in the dry Southwest once knew a flock of six thousand sheep to be rounded up and killed by the cattlemen of a range into which they had intruded.
The herders went with the sheep.

All over the range the feud between the sheepmen and the cowmen was bitter and implacable.

The issues in those quarrels rarely got into the courts but were fought out on the ground.
The old Wyoming deadline of the cowmen against intruding bands of Green River sheep made a considerable amount of history which was never recorded.
The sheepmen at length began to succeed in their plans.

Themselves not paying many taxes, not supporting the civilization of the country, not building the schools or roads or bridges, they none the less claimed the earth and the fullness thereof.
After the establishment of the great forest reserves, the sheepmen coveted the range thus included.

It has been the governmental policy to sell range privileges in the forest reserves for sheep, on a per capita basis.