Man Returns Auctioned Bulls to Shoshone Pair
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In a show of support to states’ rights activists, a California man returned three bulls to two Western Shoshone sisters after buying them at a government auction of the sisters’ confiscated cattle. Boone Tidwell returned the bulls to Carrie and Mary Dann in Fallon, 60 miles east of Reno. He paid $1,200 for them at the Bureau of Land Management auction Friday. Two other out-of-state bidders paid $58,062 for 229 other cattle formerly owned by the sisters, who owe nearly $3 million in grazing fees. The cattle were confiscated by the BLM last month from the Danns, who insist the land belongs to the Western Shoshones.
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