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Barbed wire kept the cows and bulls within a confined space, so cowboys were much less needed to round them up. And before barbed wire, cowboys drove herds as they saw fit. When more and more lands were fenced the great herd movement towards the slaughter houses became ever more of an infringement on a more regulated way of life.

Finally, freight and cattle trains took the place of great herd movements and cowboys became mostly farm hands.

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