This so-called county movement recalls the Sagebrush Rebellion of the late 1970's, when Western politicians fought the Federal Government over various land-use issues.

What we are seeing is an updated but more ominous version of the Sagebrush Rebellion of the early Reagan years.

Old Yankee Connecticut is brewing its own little Sagebrush Rebellion.

In 1979 the canyon was the scene of a dispute over public vehicle access, sometimes called the Sagebrush Rebellion.

States' rights-the 1980s version-is usually associated with the now famous Sagebrush Rebellion, the western states' challenge to federal authority over lands within state borders.

Should that occur, it may diffuse the loud though somewhat insincere cries of the Sagebrush Rebellion.

He proudly took part in the Sagebrush Rebellion, a western philosophy popular from 1979-1982 that attempted to reclaim some federally protected land for determination by states and local governments.

The politics of environmentalism is once again provoking outrage in the West, where anger among farmers and ranchers crystallized a generation ago in the Sagebrush Rebellion.

Anger over the government's stewardship of public lands helped feed the Sagebrush Rebellion, which in turn fed the Republican revolution of the 1980's.

In the first Sagebrush Rebellion in 1979, the State of Nevada had asserted that it owned the Federal land within its borders.