there was a time <br />in American history <br />when cattle rustlers <br />were shot or hung <br /> <br />stealing beef on the hoof <br />hot irons changing brands <br />fast rustled up retribution <br />justice from a rope hung <br /> <br />there was a time <br />in American history <br />when cruel range wars <br />were fought with guns <br /> <br />settlers driven off farmland <br />starved their crops ruined <br />their homes stolen burned <br />cattle grazed homesteaders <br /> <br />land cattle barons prospered <br />water rights grazing rights <br />unfenced unowned range land <br />farmers ranchers fought wars <br /> <br />frontier justice lynchings <br />local residents fought <br />gunmen hired bought <br />no weak law range wars<br /><br />Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/american-wild-west-cattle-rustlers/
