[Citizen Blade]

Range lands and wolves, and lions are not related. Raising bovines and ruminants is. This is what the west is about; its traditional America.

Were these laws really meant to cover bison? I have no idea, but was anyone actually raising bison back when these laws were passed? I would be surprised if that was the case. I think these laws were meant to cover "standard" livestock.

[editor-surveyor]

At the time that most of the laws were passed, the bison were still fairly plentiful in the wild; there was no economic motive to ‘raise’ them. Later they were hunted almost to extinction, because the meat was in demand.