Asked by IGotYa

Why did cattle owners have to buy private property on which to keep their cattle?

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Responses

They couldn’t graze their cattle on Native American reservations.
They couldn’t graze their cattle on Native American reservations.

Cattle in open-range herds got mixed together.
Cattle in open-range herds got mixed together.

Farms and the railroads carved up the open range.
Farms and the railroads carved up the open range.

Diseases often wiped out entire herds.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Farms and the railroads carved up the open range.

As homesteaders fenced land (and railroads expanded), the open range was divided and grazable public land disappeared, so ranchers had to buy private pasture.