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2. Fence Cutting Wars - Wikipedia

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   The Fence Cutting Wars occurred near the end of the 19th century in the American Old West, and were a series of disputes between farmers and cattlemen with larger land holdings. As newcomers came to the American West to farm, established cattlemen began to fence off their larger tracts of land with barbed wire in order to protect them from the ...

3. Grant–Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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   Kohrs and his half-brother, John Bielenberg, turned to more modern methods of ranching, including buying purebred breeding stock, fencing his rangeland and raising and storing fodder. He became known as "Montana's Cattle King." [3] Bielenberg helped Kohrs to run the Grant–Kohrs ranch. He originally came to Montana at age 18 in 1864 to help ...

4. Henry Miller (rancher) - Wikipedia

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   Henry Miller (rancher) Henry Miller, c. 1887. Correspondence between Henry Miller and his superintendent, P.H. Turner. Henry Miller (July 21, 1827 – October 14, 1916) was a German-American rancher known as the "Cattle King of California" [1] who at one point in the late 19th century was one of the largest land-owners in the United States.

5. Mifflin Kenedy - Wikipedia

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   It was a cattle, sheep, and horse ranch. [4] After the war, Laureles Ranch expanded to 242,000 acres. King and Kenedy were the first owners of large ranches to fence their lands, which Kenedy began with 36 miles (58 km) of fencing at Laureles in 1869. [1] [4] This was an important deterrent to thieves who flourished in the area after the Civil ...

6. King Ranch - Wikipedia

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   King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2; 1,289 sq mi) [3] it is larger than both the land area of Rhode Island and the area of the European country Luxembourg. [4] It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the racehorse Assault, who won the Triple Crown in 1946.

7. Agricultural fencing - Wikipedia

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   Most agricultural fencing averages about 4 feet (1.2 m) high, and in some places, the height and construction of fences designed to hold livestock is mandated by law. A fencerow is the strip of land by a fence that is left uncultivated. It may be a hedgerow or a shelterbelt (windbreak) or a refugee for native plants.