There now began the whole complex story of leased lands and fenced lands.

The frontier still was offering opportunity for the bold man to reap where he had not sown.
Lands leased to the Indians of the civilized tribes began to cut large figure in the cow trade--as well as some figure in politics--until at length the thorny situation was handled by a firm hand at Washington.
The methods of the East were swiftly overrunning those of the West.
Politics and graft and pull, things hitherto unknown, soon wrote their hurrying story also over all this newly won region from which the rifle-smoke had scarcely yet cleared away.
But every herd which passed north for delivery of one sort or the other advanced the education of the cowman, whether of the northern or the southern ranges.

Some of the southern men began to start feeding ranges in the North, retaining their breeding ranges in the South.

The demand of the great upper range for cattle seemed for the time insatiable.
To the vision of the railroad builders a tremendous potential freightage now appeared.

The railroad builders began to calculate that one day they would parallel the northbound cow trail with iron trails of their own and compete with nature for the carrying of this beef.