Cattle Barons versus Farmers
When wagons moved west and settled in places like Montana, cattle became a big deal in that wild country. Most of the bison had been slaughtered. Cattle barons wanted to control all the land and sometimes even murdered property owners of the small family farms to accomplish that goal.
They got away with it.
For a while.
They wer…
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