Shades of the Old West: Two Ore. ranchers dead in cattle dispute
By TERRENCE PETTY
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Four cows that had gone missing from their spread in Eastern Oregon led cattlemen Dennis Beach and his son, Travis, to a cousin's ranch about eight miles away.
What happened next was like a scene out of the Old West -- a tragedy of cousin against cousin, a man shot off his horse by a lever-action rifle, and two dead ranchers. It's a tale as tangled as tumbleweeds in barbed wire.
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
The wild west
I've met folks in NYC and other eastern urban centers who consider Oregon to be out in "the wild west." Still. I wonder why.
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