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  1. Sep 21, 2023 · The ending of Open Range is both satisfying and thought-provoking. It ties up loose ends while leaving room for interpretation. In the final act of the film, Charley and Boss confront Denton Baxter and his hired guns in a climactic gunfight.

  2. Oct 24, 2017 · The final blow to the open range was the winter of 1886-87. It became known as the Great Die Up. It was an incredibly harsh winter with temperatures dropping to -55 degrees.

  3. Open range, in U.S. history, any of several areas of public domain north of Texas where from about 1866 to 1890 more than 5,000,000 head of cattle were driven to fatten and be shipped off to slaughter. The open ranges of western Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and other Western.

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  4. Identify the myths and realities of the barbed wire. OVERVIEW & PURPOSE. With the invention of barbed wire, rangelands were enclosed, the cattle drives ended, and a new way of moving cattle to emerging markets was introduced. The success of the ranching industry also created unexpected issues.

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  5. Overgrazing and harsh winters were factors that brought an end to the age of the Open Range. The winter of 18861887, also known as the Big Die-Up, was extremely harsh for much of continental North America, especially the United States.

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  7. Jul 10, 2014 · The final blow to the open range came in 1949, when Florida became the last state in the union to pass a mandatory fence law. Extension, a longtime advocate of fencing, was able to help ranchers acquire timber cheaply and demonstrate how they could treat fence posts against weather damage.

  8. “The Great Die Up” is one of three nicknames for the winter of 1886–87, when hundreds of thousands of cattle across the Great Plains died in harsh weather. The event changed the cattle industry forever, ending the practice of open-range grazing.

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