![]() Up in Arms offers a propulsive narrative populated by rifle-toting cowboys, apocalyptic militiamen, undercover infiltrators, and the devout and charismatic Bundys themselves. John Temple, award-winning journalist and author of American Pain, gives readers an unprecedented and objective look at the real people and families at the heart of these highly publicized standoffs. Those events and the subsequent shootings, arrests, and trials captured headlines, but they’re just part of a story that has never been fully told. Then in 2016, Ammon Bundy, one of Cliven’s 13 children, led a 41-day armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The nation was riveted in 2014 when hundreds of Bundy supporters, many armed, forced federal agents to abandon a court-ordered cattle roundup. Up in Arms chronicles how an isolated clan of desert-dwelling Mormons became the guiding light-and then the outright leaders-of America’s Patriot movement. Across the country, a certain type of citizen snapped to attention: This was the flashpoint they’d been waiting for, a chance to help a fellow American stand up to a tyrannical and corrupt federal government. ![]() These words, pounded out on a laptop at Cliven Bundy’s besieged Nevada ranch on April 6, 2014, ignited a new American revolution. Range War begins tomorrow at Bundy Ranch. ![]() “IT’S TIME! They have my cattle and now they have one of my boys. ![]()
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