Storm Over Rangelands: Private Rights in Federal Lands

The book is in Fine condition (though text is bound upside down in covers by binder). Some short tears and edgewear to dustjacket. With gift inscription by and signed by author; scarce thus. Uncommon in hardcover edition. Covers Roots of Conflict, Genealogy of Federal Lands, Sectionalism, Forest Reserves, Private Rights, Courts, Economic Vandalism and more. A project of the Free Enterprise Legal Defense Fund. Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index. Wayne Hage (now deceased) fought the Centralized Powers of Washington D.C., who were not originally intended to have the power they now wield. He fought them along with his Sheriff's office and through the courts after they started trying to steal his water rights & his cattle, and he eventually won. Hage studied the history of land law and water rights going clear back to early colonial history and found that no land in any of the states was ever ceded or titled to the D.C. Government by the original founders, (which Mr. Hage supports in his book). The Constitutionally authorized government of that time was only given authority to sell the lands into private hands, and they were delegated and mandated by the original 13 colonies to sell all of it. Now with a usurped power in their hands (an authority that is not their's) they therefore were allowed to assume power over time as if they owned these vast tracts. As a result of this assumption of usurped power, they continue to encroach even further on the private party's property and rights as well. …