Thursday, February 26, 2015

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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