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.

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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