First the cattle became too plentiful and the price of beef fell from about $35 a cow to $7. Soon barbed wire was invented to control grazing lands and water. The cattle were no longer as free to roam where they close. In the 1886's-1887 killed thousands of cattle and nanny rancher other interred differently occupation s. A few cowhands on at get old ranches to struggle through the hard times,and a few invented in small ranches of their own