Open range,in U.S. history, the areas of public domain north of Texas where from about 1866 to 1890 more than 5,000,000 cattle <span>were </span><span>driven to fatten and be shipped off to slaughter. The open ranges of western </span>Kansas<span>, </span>Nebraska<span>, the Dakotas, </span>Montana<span>, </span>Wyoming<span>, and other western states and territories served as huge pasturelands for the herds of the Texas ranchmen.</span>
