Texas oil baron's son builds fence on $105m ranch to keep out locals

A oil baron's billionaire son is clashing with the descendants of original settlers after he built 20 miles of barbed wire fence to keep them off his $105 million ranch.

William Harrison, 37, bought the 88,000-acre expanse of land, named the Cielo Vista Ranch, stretching through the San Luis Valley in in 2017.

Hundreds of locals, who are descended from original Mexican and Spanish settlers, claim to have the right to legal access to the property under a 1844 agreement which allows them to graze their livestock, hunt and harvest timber.

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