The founding of Frontier County

Monday, October 6, 2008

In 1871 Nebraska passed a "herd law," which required cattlemen to fence cattle grazing land -- unless the voters of counties passed a "fence law." This, in effect would repeal the "herd law" and put the burden of fencing on the settlers, who would be required to fence their fields to keep roving herds of cattle out of their crop land.

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