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When the longhorns could be gathered up and driven, it was theorized that the heat from the herd's mass attracted lightning. (Such was the radiant heat from a large herd that a cowboy's face would be blistered on whichever side of the herd he'd ridden by the day's end.) Their great horns also seemed to attract electricity, so that lightning and ground-electricity would bounce around from horn to horn throughout the herd - a phantasmagoric burning blue circuitry. The cracking of the cowboy's whip
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― The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest
― The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest
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Public grazing provides just one dollar out of every $2,500 of taxable income in the West, or 0.04 percent, and just one out of everything 1,400 jobs, or 0.07 percent. On both public and private lands in the eleven Western states, the livestock industry accounts for less than 0.5 percent of all income.
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― This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
― This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
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