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I Can remember sitting in a United DC-8 a couple of years ago, drinking beer twenty thousand feet above Rock Springs, Wyoming and reading a Newsweek column written by George F. Will. The column was about the Sagebrush Rebellion, and at the time it made me very mad.

The Sagebrush Rebellion is a political assault by the Western states upon the Federal Government, which owns great tracts of land in the West; the Western legislatures, governors, and various interests now want that land ceded to them, and George Will was against this. Since his column appeared, a Western governor has made it to the White House and named a Sagebrush rebel as Secretary of the Interior. Also since that time, 1 have come to agree more with Will’s position than with that of the Sagebrush crowd. It is my observation that many Westerners have similarly changed their minds.

CW

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I Can remember sitting in a United DC-8 a couple of years ago, drinking beer twenty thousand feet above Rock Springs, Wyoming and reading a Newsweek column written by George F. Will. The column was about the Sagebrush Rebellion, and at the time it made me very mad.

The Sagebrush Rebellion is a political assault by the Western states upon the Federal Government, which owns great tracts of land in the West; the Western legislatures, governors, and various interests now want that land ceded to them, and George Will was against this. Since his column appeared, a Western governor has made it to the White House and named a Sagebrush rebel as Secretary of the Interior. Also since that time, 1 have come to agree more with Will’s position than with that of the Sagebrush crowd. It is my observation that many Westerners have similarly changed their minds.