Colorado Experience

605 The Sheep And Cattle Wars


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Ride into the “bloody grass” battlefields of the Old West’s longest feud and witness the gunfights, court cases, and massacres that gave rise to the classic American contest of cowboy versus sheepman. For more than forty years Colorado sheep herders and cattlemen waged war over the rights to two of the most sought-after sources in the American West: water and land. The days of the “Sheep and Cattle Wars” came to an end with the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 that became the law of the modern West that attempted to protect public lands by regulating their private uses and abuses.
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