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Close up of barbed wire

How a Technology That Helped Settle the West Became Known as the “Devil’s Rope”

Source: Slate

As American settlers moved westward into the Great Plains, conflicts arose between cattle ranchers and farmers. Learn what role barbed wire played and how this change to the landscape affected this new nation’s bison population.

This entry was posted in Responses to Change and tagged History on June 1, 2019 by Mikki Gibson.

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