We've got to stand together now, or we'll be overrun with sheep.

The truck farmers are a small matter compared to these cursed greasers." "I guess we'd better send word up the river, hadn't we ?" asked his partner.
"Yes, we want to let the whole county know it." Cheyenne County was an enormous expanse of hilly plain, if the two words may be used together.

Low heights of sharp ascent, pyramid-shaped buttes, and wide benches (cut here and there by small creek valleys) made up its surface, which, broadly considered, was only the vast, treeless, slowly-rising eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains.

At long distances, on the flat, sandy river, groups of squat and squalid ranch buildings huddled as if to escape the wind.

For years it has been a superb range for cattle, and up till the coming of the first settlements on the Cannon Ball, it had been parceled out among a few big firms, who cut Government timber, dug Government stone, and pastured on Government grass.