• Fencing the Open Range - Part One

  • Mar 11 2025
  • Length: 23 mins
  • Podcast

Fencing the Open Range - Part One

  • Summary

  • Before fences, line riders were to keep cattle from wandering. Some ranchers spent thousands to build board fences to preserve their breeding stock. Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire. Ranchers were skeptical, but eventually accepted it as a less expensive way to control cattle. Trouble was coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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