New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-12-13
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CHAPTER vi.
IN THE VIOLENT PAST.

a, ing to both Lee and Redfeld t
= permit Of any study Of the land
scape. which went by as If dismisse
by the chariot wheels of some con
temptuous magician. Redfield's eye
were mostly on the road lin the man
ner of the careful auto driver), bu
when he did look up it was to admir-
the color and poise Of his seat mate
who made the landscape Of small &C
count.
She kept the conversation to the de
sired point. "Mr. Cavanagh's worl
interests me very much. 1t seems yer!
important. and it must be new, for
n never heard Of forest ranger whe1
m was child"
Il tThe forester is new. at least IL
america" he answered. my deal
young lady, you are returned just in thu
most momentous period in the history
Of the west. The old dominion-the
cattle range passing. The suprem
acy Of the cowboy is ended. The COW
boss is raising oats. The cowboy is
pitching alfalfa and swearing horribly
- he blisters his hands. Some Of the
fingers at the moment are men OF
estern training. like Ross, but whose
.pegiance is now to Uncle Sam. With
0lMers that transfer Of allegiance is not
Qn1te complete: hence the insolence Of
m1h like Gregg, who think they can
brihe or int1midate these forest guards
and 80 obtain favors. The newer men
are college bred. real foresters. But
you can't know what it all means till
you see Ross or some other ranger on
biz Own heath. Wen make up little
party some day and drop down upon
him and have him show US about. It's
Z lonely life, and 50 the ranger keeps
bppen house. Would you like to go?''
1Ohv yes, indeed. I'm eager to get
Unto the mountains. Every night as
zee the sun 60 down over them won
der. what the world is like up there"
Then he began very delicately to in
quire about her eastern experience.
i There was not much to tell. In love-
4 " old town not far from Philadelphia.
where her aunt lived. she had spent
ten years Of happy exile. Il was hor-
ribly lonely and homesick at first" she
said. Mother wrote only short let
4 tiers, and my father never wrote at all.
Il didn't know he was dead then. He
was always good to me. He wasn't
bad man, was he"
NO." responded Redfeld without
hesitation. HE was very like the rest
gof us, only little more reckless and
little more partisan, that's all. He
was dashing horseman and dead
shot and so naturally a leader Of
these daredevils. He was popular
with both sides Of the controversy up
to the very moment when he went
south to lead the invaders against the a
fustlers." sd
What was It all about? i never un-
derstood it. What were they fighting
Labout7' 49,, 49, =,
Nsln sense 1t was all very simple.
"a rec, Uncle Sam in his careless, do
51thing way has always left his range
% tho man who got there drst. That
vas The cattleman. At first there was
pass enough for NJ al. but a. We
unit sheds and corrals about water
mS PLACES we came to claim rights on
Ne range. We usually secured BY |
maud homesteads in the sections con-
INNING water and %. gun In hand,
Nood or the man who came after.
Sfadually, after much shooting and |
4 ANinE, We parceled ont the range and
stt'ed down. covering practically the
vaole state. Our adjustments were
.ot perfect, but our system was work
@e smoothly for Us who controlled the
nnge. We had convinced ourselves
.ao pretty nearly everybody else that
we state was only At for cattle graz
us and that we were the most COM
ee'ent grazers; furthermore, we were
- possession. and no man could come
- without our consent.
However. very curious law of our
s"n making was our undoing. OF
ssourse the hester or 'punkin roller
we contemptuously called the small
=. aer' began sitting in here and there
spite OF our guns. but he was only
..oSquito bite in comparison with the
aouole which our cowpunchers stirred
Perhaps you remember enough
~ the business to know that an
branded yearling calf without its
.ner is called maverick"
les; l remember that. It belongs
'ae man who finds him and brands
I lrec1sely. Now. that law worked
nicely so long as the poor cow
was willing to catch and brand
~ 1or his employer. but It proved q 9
when he woke up and said to