From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Nick wrote:   
   > Uh, anybody heard of the KING RANCH? :) Texas was only able to build a   
   > highway through there!   
      
   I thought of the King Ranch, but I didn't think that was quite the   
   situation sought. Of course, the ranch encompassed whole communities   
   that were entirely King Ranch operations. But I don't think it qualifies   
   as the classic "cattle king vs. sodbuster/sheepman/smallholder" conflict   
   so beloved of western drama. "Settlers" weren't much of a consern.   
   Trespassers, on the other hand, might well come to a bad and annonymous   
   end through the efforts of fence riders talented in spotting the signs   
   of entry and prepared to see that those who come in don't come out.   
      
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