Land runs spurred by a lack of homesteads and overpopulation lead to stampedes and violence in Oklahoma. When barbed wire was invented in 1874 it revolutionized the battle business but also lead to the large scale dislocation of landless, many Mexican, cattle ranchers who were forced to take wage worker jobs. Large scale consolidation of land into the hands of a few large landowners lead to many becoming sharecroppers and migrant farm
Land runs spurred by a lack of homesteads and overpopulation lead to stampedes and violence in Oklahoma. When barbed wire was invented in 1874 it revolutionized the battle business but also lead to the large scale dislocation of landless, many Mexican, cattle ranchers who were forced to take wage worker jobs. Large scale consolidation of land into the hands of a few large landowners lead to many becoming sharecroppers and migrant farm