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Farmers need to enclose the land (to protect their planted crops) - they used barbed wire for this. Ranchers needed unimpeded open plains to drive their cattle across (the cattle got entangled in the wire).

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Ranchers moved west for more land.

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The lure of gold and lots of land.

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Q: Why did miners and ranchers move west?
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What group had conflict over silver miners over land and water rights?

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