The Missouri Breaks - Consequences of Justice and Desperation
Tom Logan:
I understand you had to hang someone here.
David Braxton:
I did that.
Tom Logan:
Ah, that's tough. What was this, some kind of desperado?
David Braxton:
No, he was a thief... with probably a million good reasons for being on hard times. The main thing is that we put him out of his misery.
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The Missouri Breaks - Changing Times and Challenges in Ranching
David Braxton:
The first time I saw this country, it had buffalo grass and bluejoint up to the stirrups. By the second year, we had eight thousand Texas half-bred cattle and over three thousand five hundred volumes of English literature in my library.
Pete Marker:
Hell, we just cut out the unbranded stock and divided up even among outfits. There was no arguin over mavericks like today.
Sandy:
You got it good today.
David Braxton:
Two percent annual loss then, now it's seven from rustling alone, not to mention winterkill, calving loss, miring down in the spring.
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The Missouri Breaks - Diverse Characters in the Missouri Breaks
David Braxton:
This is my fourth frontier and I know how they run. I was in the California gold fields before I was eighteen, I was at the rush at Alder Gulch and I went with the grazing committee to South America. These long ropers in the Missouri Breaks are a mixed bag: barbers from Minneapolis, failed grangers, Scandinavian half-breeds, wolfers and woodcutters, dishonest apprentices, raftsmen, poisoners - you give them a chance and they'll waste everything!
Cal:
A 44.40 in the brain pan would be my sentence for him. Now I don't know why you don't want to go along with that, Tom!
Little Tod:
Damn, I don't know why they had to put Canada all the way up here.
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