Rivalry between Ranchers and Homesteaders
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- Rivalry between ranchers and homesteaders
- Why?
- Ranches needed lots of land for cattle to graze
- Would split it up between ranchers
- Homesteaders took public land ranchers relied on
- Ranches needed lots of land for cattle to graze
- Ranchers tactics
- Filed claims under 1862 Homestead Act for land with water
- Made land seem unattractive to settlers
- Ranch-hands and family members filed for land under HA
- Handed the rights to the ranch owner
- Rich ranchers took homesteaders to court
- Homesteaders couldn't afford fees so gave up land
- Threatened homesteaders with violence or damaged crops
- Filed claims under 1862 Homestead Act for land with water
- Law-enforcement couldn't cope
- Ranch cattle strayed and ate homesteaders crops
- Ranchers blamed homesteaders for not building fences
- Homesteaders blamed ranches for not confining cattle
- Sheep farming
- Both used public land
- Ranchers said sheep ate grass down to roots leaving nothing
- Ranchers complained they spread diseases (like sheep scab)
- Why?
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