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Show Page 52 Ann spent her days "jerking" Two Bar cattle. Seeing a steer, Ann would gallop toward it and drop her rope over its rump, flipping it in the air. Upon landing, the animal sometimes broke its neck. Other times Ann would force a group of cattle into the Green River. Sometimes they made it to the other bank and wandered off into the badlands. Sometimes the swift current carried them into the Lodore Canyon to drown. Either way the Two Bar never saw them again. Ann was especially busy with these activities during 1902 and 1903, costing Ora Haley hundreds of cattle. It seems that where Haley's cattle were concerned Ann lost her love for animals and forgot how it hurt her to see them suffer. Such was her hatred for Ora Haley. For three years Ann waged her private war against Ora Haley. Defeating him seemed to have become an obsession with her Her efforts were wasted against a company as large as his, however, and Ann eventually realized this. She changed her tactics. On April 13, 1904, when she was twenty-six, she married Hiram H. Bernard, twenty years older than she, a respected man in the cattle industry-and manager of the Haley Two Bar. |