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Before there were fences, the range was open and wild. It was a place where cowboys rode for days across endless grasslands, always chasing water and weather. Then came two inventions that changed everything.

The windmill brought water to dry country, making ranching possible where rivers couldn’t reach. Barbed wire drew the lines that ended the open range and reshaped the cowboy’s world forever.

In this episode of Way Out West, learn the story of how technology tamed the range — from Daniel Halladay’s first windmills to Joseph Glidden’s barbed wire empire — and reflect on what was gained, and what was lost, when the West was fenced in.

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Chapters

1. Windmills and Fences: How Technology Tamed the Open Range (00:00:00)

2. Welcome to Episode 68 (00:02:26)

3. Chapter One: The Windmill Revolution (00:03:01)

4. Chapter Two: Barbed Wire and the End of the Open Range (00:05:07)

5. Chapter Three: Adaptation and Progress (00:07:35)

6. Closing Reflections: Taming the Range (00:09:06)

7. Buster the Bull & the Cowboy Glossary Term of the Week (00:10:16)

8. Thanks for Listening (00:10:59)

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