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3. Speaking of who owns the land

Remember how, during the standoff at the Clive Bundy ranch, the terrorists claimed Bundy was defending "ancestral lands" that his family had owned since the 1800's -- or some such bullshit as that?

Turns out that a sharp-eyed journalist at a local newspaper took the simple step of checking the county property records.

Clark County property records show Cliven Bundy’s parents moved from Bundyville, Arizona and bought the 160 acre ranch in 1948 from Raoul and Ruth Leavitt.

Water rights were transferred too, but only to the ranch, not the federally managed land surrounding it. Court records show Bundy family cattle didn’t start grazing on that land until 1954.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/547315/hero-ranchers-family-has-been-on-nevada-land-since-forever-or-at-least-1948#xQ11x3uiPbpXGbfH.99