Farther on is the town of Frenchglen (pop. 11), which used to serve as a way station for ranchers herding cattle.

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As the movie opens, the Earp brothers are herding cattle to Tombstone, Arizona, in 1882 when the youngest brother James is shot dead (in the back, of course) by the rustling Clanton family.

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Ranchers began herding their cattle to railroads in the East to meet the increasing demand for beef.

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It disrupts pastoralists herding their cattle and can leak radon and other gases.

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Throughout the summer, well-heeled guests saddle their own horses and eat steak with the cowboys, and discover that herding 400 cattle is good training for managing a business--and a heck of a lot more fun.

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The result is that tours often resemble cattle herding.

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The province's two main tribes, the cattle-herding Hema and the seed-sowing Lendus, used to bicker intermittently.

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The nearby Sikalima stream is another cause of friction between the Chinese-run mine and the cattle-herding community in the area, who rely on it as a source of drinking water.

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Liban Egal, a Somali entrepreneur who grew up in Baltimore in America, has started work with an American-trained chemist to produce bio-diesel from animal fat, which the cattle-herding Somalis normally have in abundance, along with used oil and chemicals.

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These hardworking rural dwellers make their living by herding horses, camels, goats, cattle and sheep for milk, cashmere, meat and other livestock products.

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