Cattlemen
Terrabona is a dry, hard country. It is made for cattle ranching
for meat, but with nobody investing in cattle, the source of income
in the past few years has been cutting the sparse bush for firewood.
Every day some more of the county’s future is trucked away
to feed the capital’s kitchen fires. These people are dirt
farmers by bad luck, not by choice. They dream not of harves-ting
green fields but of days on horseback, driving fat steers to slaughter. |
