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Outfoxing a Rustler

by | Mar 18, 2019 | True West Blog

Next to fluctuating markets and drought the biggest concern facing cattlemen then and now was rustling. It was tough to get a conviction, you practically had to catch a rustler in the act of altering a brand. Even then the thief might convince a jury of his peers it was an honest mistake. Down in Cochise County in the early 1900s a family named Taylor arrived from Texas were building up a herd i


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