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This is John Bachelor. From a conversation with Joe Popolardo for his book Red Sky Morning,

the epic true story of Texas Ranger Company F.

Joe explains the open range and the fencing of the open range and the challenges of

weather and cattle and theft and what the Texas Rangers took on in the period at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century

as the Rangers closing. This is Joe Papalaro, Red Sky Morning. More later.

Right, the idea of the open range was being strangled by barbed wire and everyone seems to think,

well, the barbed wire got set up by local landowners who wanted to, you know, make sure that they had this whole access to water supplies and all this, but what I didn't realize before I started researching books, there was these enormous economic forces that were ending the open

range and it was mostly based on weather. There was horrific blizzards that blew, that drove the herds of open range cattle into drift fences.

And drift fences were supposed to keep the cattle sort of,

you know, in the right areas, you know, especially along state lines.

So they would be pressed up against these fences

or near railroad lines where people can see them

were dying by the hundreds of thousands.

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