Ep. 134: The Fence Cutting Wars
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Barbed wire revolutionized livestock fencing. What a great invention...or so it was thought. The real effect was the gradual elimination of the open range and the free grazing and watering of cattle. Cooperation was discouraged and now it would be every man for himself. This didn't sit well with the "free grazers" and the war started. Learn more in this episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | This is your host, Ken Wise. |
| 0:13.2 | Thank you very much for tuning in today for a little bit of Texas history. |
| 0:17.2 | Been a busy spring. |
| 0:18.3 | I've been off away from the podcast for a little while. It's been a very busy spring. I've been off away from the podcast for a little while. |
| 0:22.4 | It's been a very busy spring. |
| 0:24.5 | I wrapped up my term as the president of the Texas State Historical Association, |
| 0:30.3 | which with our annual meeting at the beginning of March went very well, |
| 0:35.5 | one of the biggest we've ever had, one of the best we've ever had. |
| 0:38.6 | And the staff of the Texas State Historical Association, under the leadership of our |
| 0:43.1 | executive director, J.P. Brian, has just done a tremendous amount of work to turn that association |
| 0:48.8 | around. So I encourage you, if you're not a member of the Texas State Historical Association |
| 0:53.6 | to join today, |
| 0:55.7 | there's lots of new programming. |
| 0:57.6 | The publishing is kicked back into gear and you will enjoy being a member of that association. |
| 1:03.6 | But now that I'm done as president, I can turn to the podcast a little bit. |
| 1:08.0 | We did an episode, a few episodes back on the coming of barbed wire. |
| 1:13.9 | I got a lot of great feedback about that episode. And one of the points of the episode about |
| 1:19.1 | barbed wire, in addition to introducing you to where that fencing material came from, was the |
| 1:26.1 | idea that it changed the nature of the countryside in |
| 1:30.2 | Texas from a situation where animals were allowed to grace freely to a situation where people |
| 1:36.7 | were marking possession of their land with those fences and preventing people from trespassing on |
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