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To the Last Man

CHAPTER III
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This of course did not apply to the few acres of cultivated ground that a rancher could call his own; but very few cattle could have been raised on such limited area.

Blaisdell said that the sheepmen were unfair because they could have done just as well, though perhaps at more labor, by keeping to the ridges and leaving the open valley and little flats to the ranchers.

Formerly there had been room enough for all; now the grazing ranges were being encroached upon by sheepmen newly come to the Tonto.

To Blaisdell's way of thinking the rustler menace was more serious than the sheeping-off of the range, for the simple reason that no cattleman knew exactly who the rustlers were and for the more complex and significant reason that the rustlers did not steal sheep.
"Texas was overstocked with bad men an' fine steers," concluded Blaisdell.

"Most of the first an' some of the last have struck the Tonto.


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