Posted on 06/09/2010 12:38:12 PM PDT by MissTed
Sue Krentz answered the phone about 6 p.m.
It was March 27, a Saturday, and she was in Phoenix, tending to her aged parents as a sister attended a conference.
Sue usually doesn't stray from her family's venerable cattle ranch in Cochise County for too long at a stretch. But she was planning on staying through the weekend, as another sister was coming into town for a visit.
She and Rob, her husband of 32 years, hadn't been on a vacation in years, what with endless tasks on the ranch, about 35 miles northeast of Douglas, Arizona, near the borders of New Mexico and Mexico.
The call was from her 27-year-old son Frank, who also works on Krentz Ranch.
"We can't find Daddy," he told his mother.
Sue last had spoken to Rob early that morning. He had told her he planned to check on some water lines on the sprawling property, an everyday responsibility to preserve the ranch's lifeblood.
(Excerpt) Read more at westword.com ...
I read a lot of it. Sad story. These ranchers are getting the short end of the stick, no doubt about it. Makes me wonder if the day will come when the ranchers just take matters into their own hands.
“...if the day will come when the ranchers just take matters into their own hands.”
One problem is that there are not many ranchers as a percentage of the population. We’re an urban society even out West. But our only hope may be that ranchers and a few allies do take action.
sad... what do the liberal political leaders have to say about this story? what do they say to his widow? i want them to say out loud what they really think of this...
I’m sure they would say it’s just a isolated incident, blah..blah...blah...
It’s an excellent article and well worth the read. This was so senseless.
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