. Book of Texas . 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, ner
. Book of Texas . 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 -sir* .- •1I : • . 4* Courtesy of the Dallas New: A Few Surviving Longhorns Photographed by Harting, BrownwoodNote the rough hair which is shed as spring advances
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