Oh, and I forgot the crooked sheriff who has been bought off by the crooked politician who is making an illegal land grab. And the stolen cattle. And the morning that 20 cowboys went out before dawn and raided back 30 cows from the BLM.
This whole thing is out of "How to Write a Western Movie Script 101."
They just haven't written the ending yet. Does Harry Reid really think he is going to win against such American iconography?