the ones who thought the whole of eastern Montana was somehow theirs to do with as they pleased, who conveniently forgot that their great-grandfathers were the ones given free land in the first place, that their grandfathers were the ones who had caused the dust bowl, that their grandfathers and fathers had poisoned the rivers and nearly decimated the elk, antelope, and grouse populations, and that the federal government had stepped in every step of the way—from rural electrification to cheap government grazing leases to generous rental agreements—to pay for this ridiculous way of life they
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