Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West Catoctin Creek Series with the prospect of ‘better

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Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West Catoctin Creek Series with the prospect of ‘betterAuthor: Joanne S Liu Before the mid 1800s, much of the American West was a vast expanse of open plains. Native tribes followed buffalo herds unimpeded for hundreds of miles, cowboys ran cattle wherever water and grass led them, and the cattleman's Law of the Open Range ruled. All this changed when settlers pouring into the West under the Homestead Act of 1862 brought with them the Eastern farmer's concept of fencing in farms. With the invention and