Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West Gold Find your own path through

Find your own path through the beautiful state of Utah

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and to Mesa Arch―the most photographed arch in Canyonlands―in the Island in the Sky District

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Some important areas for study included the natural ground-water systems

Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West Gold Find your own path throughBy: Joanne S. Liu How could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains, where native tribes followed buffalo herds for hundreds of miles and cowboys ran cattle wherever water and grass led them. After the Homestead Act of 1862, settlers pouring into the West to stake their claims found that farming was not easy in cattle country, where the Law of the Open Range