The Lambs Are Safe Tonight

Oil on Barnwood
25.5″ x 18.25″
$900
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Charlie Coil Ranch
Not much is known of this ranch located near Cohagen. However, the importance of the painting is not who owned it, but that it represents an on-going controversy: the protection of livestock versus the freedom of wildlife.  A rancher told a wildlife magazine that he had no hatred for wolves or coyotes and really felt terrible when he had to kill one.  However, those animals live by eating his livelihood, and he wished that instead of contributing a buck or two to wildlife organizations, the do-gooders had to give an amount that equaled his losses.  Then might they understand why ranchers become upset.