The Marshall republican., 1911-04-07
1910. By nAmiin Garland
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CHAPTER VI.
IN THE VIOLENT PAST.

scape. which went by as IL dismissed
by the chariot wheels Of some con
temptuous magician. RedHeId's eyes
were mostly on the rond Qn the man
ner Of the careful auto driver. bu,
when he did look up Il was to admir-,
the color and polse Of his sent mate.
who made the landscape Of small ne
count.
She kept the conversation to the de.
sired point. "Mr. C~avanagh's work
interests me very much. II seems very
important. and II u be new. for !
never heord Of a forest ranger when
I was a child"
THE forester In new. ut least 10
Americn." he answered. MY dear
young lady. you ARE returned lust In the
most momentous period In the history
OF the west. The old dominion the
cattle rnnge-is passing. The suprem.
acy Of the cowboy In ended. The COW
boss IL raising ons. The cowboy II
pitching alfalfa and swearing horribly
NJ he blistcrs his hands. Some ~ the
rangers at the moment are men of
western trimming. like Ross. but whose
allegiance In now to Uncle Sam. With
others that transfer OF allegiance Ii not
quite complete: hence the i~nsolence Of
men like Gregg. who think they cnn
bride or intimidate these forest guards
and 10 obtuin favors. The newer men
are college bred. real foresters. Hut
you can't know what II all means tiil
you zee Ross ar some other RINGER on
his own heath. Well make M u lItfis
party some dny aud drop down upon
him and have him show us about. It's
q lonely life. md so the ranged keeps
open house. Would you like TO go?"
"Oh. yes. Indeed. I'm eugcr TO get
into the mountains. Every night us
zee the sun 10 down owe them ] won.
der what the world In like up there"
Then he begun very delIcately to In.
quire about her eastern experience.
There was not much TO tell In n lave
~ old town not far from philadelphia.
where her aunt lived. she had spent
ten years Of happy exile. II WIS hor.
ribly lonely and bomesick nj tirst." she
w stthtt'N fott oufy buOTI lNfs
ters. and my father never wrote mt all.
] didn't know he was dead then. He
was always good to me. He wasn't q
bad man. was her"
"No." responded Redheld without
hesitation. 'He wns very like the resi-
Of us. only a little more reckless ana
a little more partisan, that's all. lie
WINS n dnshing horseman and n dend
shot. aud so naturally a leader of
these dnredevils. He was popular
with both sides Of the controversy up
to the very moment when he wen,
south to lead the invaders against the
rustlers."
"what was II all about2 eve un
derstood Il. What were they fighting
about?"
"In a sense II was all very simple.
You see. Uncle Sam in his careless. do
nothing way has always left his range
TO the man who got there first. That
was the cattleman. At first there was
grass enough for US all. but as we
built sheds aud corrals about water
ing places we came 10 claim rights on
the range We usually secured by
fraud homesteads In the sections ron.
tanning water and so. gun in hand.
stood OF the man who came after.
Gradually, after much shooting and
having. we parceled out the range and
settled down. covering practically the
whole state. Our adjustments were
not perfect. but our system was work.
fng smoothly for IL who controlled the
range. We had convinced ourselves
and pretty nearly everybody else that
the state was only ut for cattle graz
ing and that we were the most com
petent grazers; furthermore. we were
In possession. and no man could come
In without our consent.
However. a very curious law Of our
w making was our undoing. OF
course the hester or 'punkin roller
~ we contemptuously called the small
farmer. began sitting In here and there
IN spite Of II guns but he was only a
mosquito bite IN comparison with the
trouble which our cowpunchers stirred
up. Perhaps you remember enough
about the business to know that an
unbranded yearllng calf without It's
mother ID called q mavericktv
"Yes; I remember that, u belongs
TO the man who nnds him and brands
him."
"prscissly. Now. that law worked
very uicely 10 long a. tho poor COW
bot was willing 10 catch and brund