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Open Range Cattle
- High Profits
- Expanded quickly
- Poor Management
- Bookkeeping & Credit
- Overstock public ranges
- No fences
- periodic roundups for branding
- Large scale, absentee Owners
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Railroad
- Own a lot of land
- Went out first before people
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Barbed Wire
- JF Glidden
- Was expensive til 1900
- Started fencing public domain to keep settlers out
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1880-7 Winters
- Big ranches broke up
- Beef price down
- Land Grant colleges having useful advice
- started grain sorghum
- started to sell to mid-west to finish them on corn
- Started staking hay
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Homestead Act 1862
- 160 acres to 21 year old, improve in 5 years
- Rain will follow the plow
- Had to start dry land farming
- South didn't like it
- Settlement happened faster than they thought
- Dug outs and sod houses
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