Increasingly, youngsters are staying in school, dreaming of lives away from the range land.

So in 1897, to encourage a growing industry, Congress ruled that ranchers would be allowed to lease public range lands.

For fifteen miles, most of the area ahead appeared to be range land.

Many smaller towns along the way supported open range lands.

If the plan is approved, it would be the first time a county had been contracted to help manage public range lands, Government officials said.

Today, the vast majority of flocks reside on Western range lands.

Beef could now be shipped east from the range lands.

Without access to water, the nearby open range land was useless to other ranchers.

Star was broken and trained on range land, chasing cars.

You think they'd come looking for range land, them folks?