Cowboy Cody Easterday lies big, creating a “ghost herd” of 265,000 cattle that only exist on paper and bringing in hundreds of millions of investment dollars from companies including a meat-packing giant. It’s fraud on a massive scale. We examine how he carried it out.

A true story of family, fraud, land and power in the American West. Ghost Herd is a joint production of KUOW and Northwest Public Broadcasting, both members of the NPR Network. 

<p>A true story of family, fraud, land and power in the American West. <em>Ghost Herd</em> is a joint production of KUOW and Northwest Public Broadcasting, both members of the NPR Network. </p>

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