A quick note to listeners.

This episode contains explicit violence.

So if you're around young children, especially young children who love fuzzy animals,

you might want to put on some headphones.

And there are no rules.

There are no laws. I think part of understanding the sheep and cattle wars is this is raw capitalism and its worst, where you are actually deeply competing for resources.

And who wins that competition is often decided by guns and gunfire.

Today's episode is about the Wild West.

And the Wild West, Old West, American West, whatever you want to call it, is this mythic place.

The land of wide open spaces, Wyatt Earp and Calamity Jane, cattle drives, and cowboys.

Shove them at the side, though, the American West was a place of constant violent conflict,

where, aside from the mass genocide, we inflicted on native populations, one of the most drawn

out of these conflicts were the so-called range wars.

And this is where cattlemen and sheepmen fought over land and water, dozens of sheepherders

were murdered, and up to 100,000 sheep were slaughtered, all before a Colorado congressman

ended the violence in 1934. And it's a place where, 50 years later, the descendants of those

sheepmen, some of them, anyways, had the last laugh.

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