What if your landlord blocked your business or your driveway from making money to pay those rents?
This is what happened, they restricted his cow count. Moreover the contract was not signed with the BLM.
I raise you one better.
My family used to have (note past tense) a parcel of land. My family owned it outright, and had clear title to. A rather big name in the news business was buying up a lot of land to play rancher and bought the parcel that granted access to ours.
My cousin showed up one day to see a fence across the road that was leading to his land. He opened it, and was met by the sheriff on the way out.
Long story short, we lost that land because the previous owners and my cousin’s family never sat down and spelled out access rights. He was shut out, of his own land, and at the end of the day lost it (well, he did get a decent price for it) because of some legal trick that honestly would not have worked in most areas.
Land rights and grazing rights are very messy out west. Look at the old range wars (the last one recognized one ended with Tom Horn). In the homestead days, the ranchers would stake false claims to block access to “their” piece of government land, and then claim they needed to pay reduced fees because of the lack of access.