The cattlemen finally had to settle land of their own, putting up fences and cutting the size of their herds. They no longer could let their cattle run free on public lands.
He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again, now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.
For a moment, I was just a little bit worried because we have a toddler, and we'd been driving all day, so we wanted to just open the door and let him run free finally.