Today’s Embattled Cowboys

If the environmentalists and the Washington bureaucrats have their way, there may never again be an event like the centennial cattle drive that took place in Montana this Labor Day weekend.

Various soothsayers, in the media and elsewhere, were predicting that the 288 wagons and 2,700 head of cattle, accompanied by 2,400 riders and 3,500 horses, would never make it the sixty miles from Roundup into Billings. But the cowboys refused to listen to these discouraging words.

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Hertha L. Lund

If the environmentalists and the Washington bureaucrats have their way, there may never again be an event like the centennial cattle drive that took place in Montana this Labor Day weekend.

Various soothsayers, in the media and elsewhere, were predicting that the 288 wagons and 2,700 head of cattle, accompanied by 2,400 riders and 3,500 horses, would never make it the sixty miles from Roundup into Billings. But the cowboys refused to listen to these discouraging words.