| 1. | Hanley also had access to thousands of acres of public range land.
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| 2. | As a House member, Blair supported farmers who needed open range lands.
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| 3. | Parcels include range land, salt flats, meadows, desert and mountainous areas.
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| 4. | There are also rain-fed fields and open range land that span several miles.
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| 5. | Range land, once free, now had to be leased or bought from the homesteaders.
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| 6. | Increasingly, youngsters are staying in school, dreaming of lives away from the range land.
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| 7. | Without access to water, the nearby open range land was useless to other ranchers.
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| 8. | Many smaller towns along the way supported open range lands.
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| 9. | Hunters were worried that as horses degraded range land, hunting species would also suffer.
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| 10. | Anchored in a sea of range land, the town seems removed from the world.
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