Robinson, History of North Dakota, 191.

The newest reinterpretation of the Johnson County War is Belgrad, "Johnson County War", 159-77.

For South Texas and the King ranch, see Benjamin Heber Johnson, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2005), 726.

Such thefts were usually the appropriation of dogies - orphaned calves - on the range.