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Vaqueros - Moving Camp
Liberty Matters | Nov 2000 | Margaret Byfield -- This large oil (36"x48") was a cover for Western Horseman, it was also the first painting I hung on exhibition at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. At the end of that exhibition, I gave the original oil to my wife. Then governor Ronald Reagan saw this Western Horseman cover and his secr...
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The Lowry's; The Genuine Article
Liberty Matters | Nov 2000 | Fred Kelly Grant -- High above the Owyhee desert, in a valley in the mountainous corner where Idaho, Oregon and Nevada join, lies the Lowry family cattle ranch. Seventy-nine year old Bill Lowry and his wife Nita, with their son Tim and his wife Rosemary and family all pitch in to share the chores necessary on a family ranch...
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Sheriff Issues BLM Trespass Policy
Liberty Matters | Nov 2000 | Fred Kelly Grant -- Gary Aman, the Sheriff of Owyhee County, Idaho has taken a bold step to protect private property rights. Faced with repeated incidents of what he believes to be trespass—acts of federal employees escorting anti-grazing extremists on to and across private property without permission—, Sheriff Aman has serv...
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CARA's Flaws Become Law
Liberty Matters | Feb 2001 | Fred Kelly Grant -- Once again, in the appropriations rush to close out a session, Congress shielded its eyes from the limited government philosophy upon which our Constitution is based, and dealt a swift kick to private property supporters. During this time, when principle gives way to compromise and pork barrel funding, CA...
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Congressman Nethercutt Stalls Ecosystem Plan
Liberty Matters | Nov 2000 | Fred Kelly Grant -- A determined effort by Rep. George Nethercutt (R-Wash) has forced delay in implementation of a federal land control plan. The Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (commonly referred to as ICBEMP) will severely restrict logging, grazing, recreation use and all other multiple uses of the fed...
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2000 - Novermber
