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"Cattle Beet Capital explores the economic, cultural, and environmental processes and contingencies that shaped the evolution of industrial agriculture in northern Colorado"--
"In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado territory. Their planned agricultural community, which they named Greeley, was centered around small landholdings, shared irrigation, and...
86) Lazy H feud
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The Arizona Territory was rough country in the 1870s and cowhands on the Lazy H were expected to do more than just ride for the brand. Apaches were constantly trying to raid the horse herd but the biggest threat was the neighbouring rancher, who waited for a chance to take over the graze and the cattle. So men were hired for their gun skill and if they were good enough at this, they had time to learn the cattle trade. Such a man, and maybe a little...
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"Great Western Detective League officer Beau Longstreet is dispatched to assist Cheyenne sheriff Habb Tyler with a suspected bank fraud case. While in Cheyenne, Longstreet gets wind of range war brewing between open range cattle barons and homesteaders there. Meanwhile, after refusing Longstreet's marriage proposal Maddie O'Rourke moves to Buffalo in Johnson County, Wyoming. She invests in a small ranch but is caught up in the range war and sends...
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"Cowboys: a documentary portrait" is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these "bit outfit" ranches - some of which are over a million acres - and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend large herds of cattle. Narrated through first-hand accounts...
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"'In Strangers Talk or Die', Jeff Parker takes on the syndicate that killed his father and brother when he was a boy. In 'Cantrell', Tom Cantrell attempts to stop the Indian raids on Texas ranches and protect his ranch in New Mexico by going after the men who trade with the Indians for the stolen cattle"--