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fence In the world. Light as air. Stronger than whiskey. Cheaper than din. All steel and miles long. The cattle ain't bom that can get through
He was right. Twenty-five of the .meanest Longhorns available exhausted themselves trying to break out of the barbed-wire corral. Before nightfall. Gates had sold hundreds of miles of "bob wire*. In 1874, 10,000 pounds of barbed wire were made and sold. Within six years,' the output had soared to 80,500, 000 pounds a year. Farmers accepted barbed wire more quickly than cattlemen, who complained that the ‘devil’s rope* was strangling their traditional open range. Fence-cutting wars, broke out in Texas, Wyominn. and
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