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

Question

(1 point)
They couldn't graze their cattle on Native
• American
reservations.
Cattle in open-range
• herds got mixed together.
Farms and the
• railroads carved up the open range.
• Diseases often wiped out entire herds.

Answer 1

Farms and the railroads carved up the open range.