OUT OUR WAY: Where do you bed down?

Out our way, ranches are often pretty good size, especially in cattle country. In my first parish in Wyoming, I got a chance to get to know folks at the Empire ranch. Their ranch was on both sides of the Wyoming/ Nebraska border/ In fact the state line of Wyobraska ,as the area was called, ran right through their ranch house.

Though the ranch and house were on both sides of the state line, he had Wyoming license plates on his truck,and I asked how his residence status had been made. He explained that both states had agreed that when the line went through the home, as it often did in Wyobraska,...