Numerous writers explicitly or implicitly refer to the plains as a tragedy of the commons and then provide evidence for how it was regulated and apportioned.

Briggs, "Development and Decline," 523-25.

Osgood, Day of the Cattleman, 114-24, 130-37, 140, 149-52, 181-88, 190-91.

Belgrad, "Johnson County War," 173.