To attempt to end fighting over grazing lands. People were also figuring out how to cross fence & graze cattle in the same area as opposed to continously move/range cattle.
Barbed wire
There were too many cattle and the open-range declined due to barbed wire.
Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner in "Open Range." A pretty accurate movie about the use of the open range by cattlemen during the 19th century.
Drop in beef prices and the invension of barbed wire. NOVANET
It can and will come to an end eventually.
barbed wire
the cattle died
The invention of barbed wire ended the open range
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Barbed wire
The enclosure movement, inspired by the creation of barbed wire, was a factor that led to the end of the open range. The creation of the refrigerated boxcar was another factor. Another factor was a shift to smaller herds.
Barbed wire
overgrazing
The cattle drives over the open range ended because of The Great Blizzard of 1888. The Cattle started slowly dying out.
The enclosure movement, inspired by the creation of barbed wire, was a factor that led to the end of the open range. The creation of the refrigerated boxcar was another factor. Another factor was a shift to smaller herds.
Barbed wire
The duration of Open Range is 2.32 hours.