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 mass production of barbed wire in
the 1970s, it soon became possible for homesteaders to fence off
millions of acres of what was once open range. But barbed wire
threatened the livelihood of the cattlemen who depended on unfenced
grasslands, and a clash of cultures was inevitable.
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