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Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas
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Editorial in Cheyenne Leader calls for eliminating prairie dogs, citing frequent destruction of spring farm work and crops, plus injuries to cowboys from horses falling into their holes on ranges.
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Instances have of late years been frequent where the work of an entire Spring, and consequently the fruits of a year's toil and care, have been rendered nugatory and destroyed by one week's work of the dogs.
On the cattle ranges, too, they are dreaded. Many a cowboy riding swiftly and fearlessly to his duty is thrown violently to the ground and seriously, if not fatally, injured by his horse stepping into a prairie dog hole.
Romance and sentiment find small sympathy when opposed to utility aid progress, and Washington Irving's prairie dogs must follow Cooper's Indians.—Cheyenne (Wyoming) Leader
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Cheyenne (Wyoming)
Event Date
Of Late Years
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work of an entire spring and fruits of a year's toil and care rendered nugatory and destroyed; cowboys thrown violently to the ground and seriously, if not fatally, injured
Event Details
Instances frequent where prairie dogs destroy farm work in one week; on cattle ranges, dreaded as horses step into holes causing injuries to cowboys; romance and sentiment opposed to utility and progress, prairie dogs must go like Cooper's Indians