Sentence examples for range war from inspiring English sources

"Range War begins tomorrow at Bundy ranch at 9.30am.

It was war as it has always been, war at close range, war as Sherman described it, bloody and cruel.

The raw and tragic violence of the confrontation gave it the aspect of a range war, waged in a place where feuds might linger.

Along the way there is a complicated romance and "some kind of dead-body-cleanup range war" with a rival company.

RAIN GODS (Simon & Schuster, $25.99) is Burke's version of a range war in Southwest Texas — a pitched battle between gangs of displaced bad guys, fighting among themselves for the new territory against the outmatched locals.

The legendary gunfighter Billy the Kid and his lawman-nemesis Pat Garrett were party to this struggle in Lincoln county, the epicentre of the local range war in its bloodiest year, 1878.

"We're like the cattlemen in the range wars who shot at each other because they were claiming the right to the same property.

"For a few years in the early nineties, the range wars around Arcadia beat anything the Wild West had to offer," says Mr. Matthiessen's Watson, who's on the lam from prison in Arkansas at the time.

The burgeoning cattle industry was the main development of the late 19th century, and bloody battles often were fought between cattle and sheep ranchers and large and small landowners in a series of range wars.

The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought frequent range wars, and toward the government of the Cape, which was attempting to control Boer movements and commerce.

At United Artists, where he became senior vice president in charge of worldwide production in 1978, Mr. Bach had the misfortune to be associated with one of the greatest cinematic disasters in Hollywood history, the 1980 film "Heaven's Gate," a sprawling historical drama about range wars in Wyoming in the 1890s.