The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.150
Sometimes Joe Sherburne does not even stop to
put on a mask. The sheep continued to graze on our land for nothing. Other
sheepmen came in and tried to run the grazing bid up, but the Office always
closed the bids one day ahead of the scheduled time. The un-favored bidders
would arrive just one day too late. The bidders were supposed to appear in
person, that means that higher grazing rent was not wanted by the Office and
the two sheep companies named above. By this time Campbell inaugurated a policy what he called
the Five-Year Program. He tried to make us sheep-minded and encouraged a few of
his pets to buy sheep on the Reimbursable Loan, no doubt the Fryes and the Long
and Clary had some old toothless ewes they wanted to get rid of and conceived
the idea of us buying them. We protested against sheep and said we wanted
cattle, but he told us that his program consisted of sheep and milch goats. A
nice thing to wish upon us buffalo chasers, just imagine a dignified old former
warrior herding sheep and pailing a milch goat, it cannot be done.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.150
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