Some forest rangers took to enforcing the job naturally. Among them was Cyrus “Cy” Bingham, born in 1870, who started work as a ranger in 1903, patrolling the Cascade forests from central Oregon south to the California border. In 1920, he resigned and became sheriff of Grant County for 12 years. Bingham had his hands full with moonshiners during Prohibition, but at six feet tall, 300 pounds and with a Colt strapped on his hip,
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