Riding For The Brand (Ss) (1986) - Plot & Excerpts
The ownership or control of land was nothing without water, and most cattlemen did not own the land on which their cattle grazed. They merely found the range and grazed their cattle until it became too crowded or they were impelled to move on. The West has ways of hiding its water. At Tinajas Altas, on the old California trail, dozens of men died of thirst with many thousands of gallons of water waiting in natural rock tanks above them. To a man unfamiliar with the southwestern desert, those bare rocky ridges looked unpromising, and no one not knowing the country would dream there would be water in such unlikely places. Yet it was there, rainwater caught in natural basins, runoff from the bare rocks around. Nobody ever claimed the way of the West was easy. It had rich rewards, but you had to earn them. You still do. * Fork Your Own Broncs. Mac Marcy turned in the saddle and, resting his left hand on the cantle, glanced back up the arroyo. His lean, brown face was troubled. There were cattle here, all right, but too few.
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