Show A Tale of fhe Range In the early settlement of this great West the cattleman had un- disputed possession of that large unowned tract called the range Later the sheepman came and claimed the same right to Uncle Sam’s grass for his herds This right the cattleman could not lawfully dispute hut because the sheep ruined the range for cattle he fought bitter-I- v without the law for his existence In most places he is defeated Where he still exists he is being driven to the center of a rapidly decreasing circle and it is only a matter of time until the cattleman as the term was once understood will be an extinct species His terrible hatred of everything pertaining to a sheep is one of the most characteristic things about one of the most picturesque figures in opr history In the heart of some of this best cattle country and on a river which heads not verv far away in the tops of the Rockies is a ranch near enough like others which evervbodv who has lived or traveled in the West must have seen to require miles Seventy-fiv- e no description back of this over rolling foot hills and towards the mountains is an- - |