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In the Driftway
February 3, 1932 issue

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The Drifter does not imply that the ranch and the range no longer exist. He could lead the way, though no cattleman would follow him, to thousands of acres of sheep country where men and methods are as leisurely as ever, where nothing has changed, not even the taste of fresh-killed mutton or the labels on the tinned milk. But most of the cattlemen he knows still have ranches only because the banks do not want them, and a leg of lamb sells at retail in New York City for twenty-one cents a pound. The ranch, like the farm, has lost its economic justification. Therefore, the world being organized as it is, the ranch and the farm are endangered as a way of life, no matter how desirable.

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RANGELANDS; RANCHES; ECONOMIC justification; FARMS; LAND grants; UNITED States
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