The WILD west is STILL alive, "Range Wars!"

azsnowman · #1 Postby **azsnowman** » Thu May 29, 2003 8:15 am

Ran across this article this morning, I'll post a link here in a second, just shows to go ya, the WILD WEST is STILL ALIVE and KICKIN'! I can't believe these ppl, we......(I say we, I use to raise a few feeder steers for my own use but thanks to FLATLANDERS, we had to sell before they went to slaughter :grr:

) who raise cattle are ALWAYS fighting ppl who trespass, leave gates open, chase cattle with their BALSTED ATV'S :grr:

Dennis

azsnowman · #2 Postby **azsnowman** » Thu May 29, 2003 8:17 am

O'TAY, here it is! Snowflake is a *lil town* 18 miles to my north, the oldest Mormon settlement is Northern Az, it's HUGE cattle country!

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... ars29.html

Dennis 8-)

#3 Postby **streetsoldier** » Thu May 29, 2003 11:19 am

Hell's belles, Dennis; I done thought the "rancher vs. sodbuster" debate belonged in the late 19th Century..yet here 'tis, alive and kickin'.

I see two possibilities, legally...(a) repeal the law as it stands, or (b) institute an "anti-flatlander" statute which restricts acreage to people who can priove at least two generations in AZ before settlin' in and bein' 'lowed to fence their homesteads. Else, I guess I'll have to come on down thar and dispense old-timey justice...

"From a town, name of Fargo, North Dakota
Rode a man with a six-gun in his hand
And his daring fight 'gainst crime
Made him a legend in his mind
East and west of the Rio Grande..." :o

#4 Postby **Aslkahuna** » Thu May 29, 2003 2:58 pm

to the ruling about State Land Leases, an environmental group just recently outbid ranchers for a lease on some land near Elgin-their plan is to restore a stand of Willows and Cottonwood trees that existed before the cattle came.

Steve

#5 Postby **streetsoldier** » Thu May 29, 2003 4:12 pm

Why not give the wackos a permanent lease on Organ Pipe, with the provision that THEY are responsible for securing the border there from illegal imigrants?

That oughta shut 'em up...2,000 + per month, according to US Border Patrol get through in that area.

therock1811 · #6 Postby **therock1811** » Thu May 29, 2003 4:16 pm

I thought that was crazy... what drives a man to kill his neighbor's cattle? I don't get that.

#7 Postby **streetsoldier** » Thu May 29, 2003 7:33 pm

Simple...when a neighboring rancher decides to "allow" his cattle to feed on another man's property (read: retired person's carefully manicured lawn and/or garden).

It would tick me off, too...except I wouldn't shoot the cattle, but the rancher. Hell, cattle don't know from nothing...the rancher DOES. :grrr:

M2 · #8 Postby M2 » Fri May 30, 2003 1:53 am

Hay Dennis, don't be dissin' all of us 'flatlanders'...
some of whom are down here to work but much prefer the foothills/mountains.
We don't hold up traffic on mountain roads like 'REAL flatlanders...'
know what I mean? :wink:

Hay Bill, strap on yur spurs buckaroo, and get out here 8-)

The WILD west is STILL alive, "Range Wars!"

The WILD west is STILL alive, "Range Wars!"

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