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New Mexico as stockmen shipped fences to allow their cattle to pass. In at least one case: "While a man was putting up his fence one day In a hollow, a crowd of wire-cutters was cutting It back behind In another hollow." The strife ended when cattle^ men realized It was advantageous to fence animals In Isolation and Introduce superior blooded stock. The turning point came in 1885 when the XIT Ranch start ed to build a barbed-wire fence around its enormous spread. The fence stretched for 1,500 miles, the, longest barbedwire barrier ever erected.
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