Cantankerous Cowman Gave Montanans Courage

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January/February 1979
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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The people from Consolidation Coal Company didn't understand that. They kept offering more and more money. Everybody has his price, they thought. Finally, they had a meeting with the Charters, and they handed them a blank check. Name your price, they said. Anything. Boyd was finally weary of all this persistence in the face of his often repeated"no".

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"I know you are one of the largest coal companies in the world," he told them, "and I know you're a subsidiary of one of the largest and richest oil companies in the world. I know you're so rich you could pay me as much money as I could imagine and not notice it at all. But no matter how much money you offer me, you will always be four dollars and thirty-six cents short."

Boyd's instinct for truth and his strength and tenaciousness have been and continue to be a source of inspiration for the many Montanansand otherswho knew him. His spiritual leadership, even when illness kept him from active participation, has lent courage to those battling to save Montana's land and air from devastation. Because of Boyd and the example he set for others, more and more "slick sonofabitches"as he would call them-who offer false riches for the right to destroy true riches will find themselves four dollars and thirty-six cents short.*

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