How barbed wire changed the west

How could one simple idea?fencing?create such controversy? Yet, barbed wire emerged as the champion of change. While it closed the open range of the cattle ranchers and Native Americans, it opened the Great Plains to farming and settlement. Perhaps no single invention changed the American West more significantly than barbed wire.

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