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How did corporations make life harder for small ranchers in the 1880s?
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A corporation is a modern invention of business, so in the 1880's there was no corporations in ranching. There were men who were very rich and they bought/sold land as well as ran railroads that did harm the small rancher in the 1880's.
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Corporations are not a modern invention. Corporations during the 1880's made life very difficult for farmers and small ranchers. They had political and economic power to get their own way if a conflict arose.
Large businesses could buy up land, force changes to law, control stores, the shipping of goods, water rights, wages, trains and more. In 1883 there was a strike by the cowboys who helped run the ranches in Texas:
COWBOY STRIKE OF 1883. In West Texas during the 1880s new owners, representing eastern and European investment companies, gained control of the ranching industry and brought with them innovations threatening to many ranchhands. Previously, cowboys could take part of their pay in calves, brand mavericks, and even run small herds on their employers' land. New ranch owners, interested in expanding their holdings and increasing their profits, insisted that the hands work only for wages and claimed mavericks as company property. The work was seasonal. It required long hours and many skills, was dangerous, and paid only an average of forty dollars a month. The ranch owners' innovations, along with the nature of the work, gave rise to discontent.
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