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The Passing of the Frontier

CHAPTER IX
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Like privileges have been extended to cattlemen in certain of the reserves.

Always the contact and the contest between the two industries of sheep and cows have remained.

Of course the issue even in this ancient contest is foregone--as the cowman has had to raise his cows under fence, so ultimately must the sheepman also buy his range in fee and raise his product under fence.
The wandering bands of sheep belong nowhere.

They ruin a country.

It is a pathetic spectacle to see parts of the Old West in which sheep steadily have been ranged.


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