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John Chenoweth: “I lost a very good friend a little while ago, in a very, very tragic accident. Jim Anderson was a man that I have known…”

On the recordMay 11, 1998
I lost a very good friend a little while ago, in a very, very tragic accident. Jim Anderson was a man that I have known for about 25 years. He was a good man, a good father to his two children, a good husband, a good steward of the land, and a heck of a horseman. It was my honor to have known Jim Anderson, to be his friend, and it is my honor to tell you a little bit about Jim Anderson today. Jim Anderson was a rancher. It wasn't only what he did as a rancher, but it was who he was. He was killed in a tragic accident on his ranch on the border of Malheur County in Oregon and Owyhee County in Idaho, in the southwestern edge of my congressional district in Idaho. Jim's grazing allotment was far, far out in the Owyhee Desert, in a wide-open, sweeping land of grasses, of sagebrush, a few hardy juniper trees, a whole lot of rattlesnakes, but a land that cut deeply into the Owyhee River Canyon.
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John Chenoweth
Republican · Colorado
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Remembering his friend Jim Anderson, a rancher who died in a tragic accident.

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