The Farmers' Road Rebellion
When fencing blocked access to town, the local farmers took the road-building into their own hands.
A number of the farmers living south of town have, since the fencing of the Ritz land, been practically without a road to town. Last week they banded together and worked out the new road to the town limits, and on Monday of this week they came again and worked that portion of the road inside the corporation.
“They banded together and worked out the new road to the town limits.”
Then · 1898128 years apartNow · 2026
Public access in the rural West was frequently contested as large landholders enclosed open range. This grassroots infrastructure project reflects the era's civic self-reliance when the town corporation and private owners failed to maintain vital routes.
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