How Barbed Wire Was The Ruination Of The Cowboy Lifetyle

Part I of Essay
The great American cowboy is a part of our heritage that can not be repalced. Cowboys had a difficult profession, hard phyical labor, lonley days, and having to ride a horse all day long. These peaple are good people to look up to and many times over people have in books, ....

Part II of Essay
.... became even more acute, The small farmer found that the cost fencing increased while the total income from his land diminished.The seriousness of the problem attracted the attention of the Federal Government, and in 1871, an elaborate feport was issued by the Deparment of Agriculture. This report revealed that fencing, even in the most timbered areas, was very costly and that it was almost prohibitive to those who lived on the marginal lands of the western prairies. As a result, the Great Plaines were largely left unsettled until certain inv ....