Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches)
Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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w re-garding range rights, and, as the cowmen increased in num-bers, there were not as many conflicts as might have beenexpected. There was a live and let live spirit that greatlyreduced the ill-feeling, bluffs, threats, and fights that oc-casionally occurred when a newcomer crowded in on analready occupied range. Fights and ill-feeling were muchmore common between cowmen and sheepmen than be-tween cowmen and cowmen. In certain places, for brieftimes, the collective struggle between cowmen and sheep-men attained the proportions of small wars. Many mur-ders were committed, nerves were tested in fair fights, theblow-hard was often put both to proof and to flight. Itwas a time for brave men and not for weaklings, conditionswere slightly feral, there was not even a scrap of paperto protect imagined rights. There would have been manyfights for cattle ranges had it not been for two facts: at firstthere was more than enough grass for all, at the end it washopeless to stem the invading swarm.
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