1874
In 1874, the days of the open range and the era of the cowboy were delivered a fatal blow with one of the simplest yet most consequential inventions in world history: barbed wire. Barbed wire fences divvied up the American prairie, sparked violent “range wars” between competing cattle barons, and doomed the era of long, cross-country cattle drives to the realm of history and legend.
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