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Cows, Canoes, and Condos:Blending the Old West with the New (No. 36)
By Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins Summary
Charles M. Russell is known for his depictions of western scenes that bolster the notion of the wild, wild West.In reality, the old West was basically a civilized region where local people solved problems through local solutions, as a closer look at Russell's wonderful paintings reveals. In The Roundup #2, featured on the cover, Russell illustrated cattle being sorted for branding in the spring roundup. Roundups allowed cooperative management of livestock, while property rights to cattle and customary rights to grazing land encouraged protection of grassland. In this essay "," Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins reveal the lessons that the Old West can teach people today who are attempting to minimize acrimony over resource uses and maximize nature's wealth. The essay is part of a series sponsored by the Dufresne Foundation and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Terry L. Anderson is executive director of PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, as well as a senior fellow with the Hoover Institution and an adjunct professor at the Stanford Business School. He is a noted economist and author or editor of thirty books, including the path-breaking Free Market Environmentalism, written with Donald R. Leal (2001) and The Not So Wild, Wild West with Peter J. Hill (2004). Laura E. Huggins is a research fellow and director of publications with PERC as well as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Huggins is the author, along with Anderson, of Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity (2003). She also edited Population Puzzle: Boom or Bust? (2004) and Drug War Deadlock: The Policy Battle Continues (2005). |
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