Ranchers are hard targets. If the FBI comes for them, they'll take casualties. If they do a midnight raid to take one of the boss's men, there's a good chance they'll be ambushed on one of the roads out of the area and killed. What you're talking about is a classic scenario of how insurrections start. Cattle ranchers have their own world they live in. And the Feds aren't welcome there.
Ranchers are hard targets. If the FBI comes for them, they'll take casualties. If they do a midnight raid to take one of the boss's men, there's a good chance they'll be ambushed on one of the roads out of the area and killed. What you're talking about is a classic scenario of how insurrections start. Cattle ranchers have their own world they live in. And the Feds aren't welcome there.