The secret history of cowboy socialism
The American West may fly the flag of individualism, but it was built on a bedrock of Big Government
By
Ryan Cooper
published
(Image credit: O. A. Fitzgerald/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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- The history of socialism
- The nefarious motivations driving the land grab movement
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