Ranch real estate and wildlife expert James Bigley explores how barbed wire changed America and shaped the West.

Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

An 18” piece of barbed wire that’s worth $600 (it features barbs in the shape of cockleburs). A Raven’s nest built primarily of barbed wire.

More than 1,000 barbed wire types were patented, Call said, and even more were made without patents. "There are some rare pieces out there that are just absolutely beautiful," he said.

Barbed wire normally consists of two long wires that are twisted together to form a cable. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, OCTOBER 24, 1861, TRANSCONTINENTAL TELEGRAPH COMPLETED, CONNECTING COAST FOR THE ...

Barbed wire helped keep cattle in, but just as important to ranchers, it kept other cattle out. Hamilton noted an article written in Zavala County in the 1870s regarding local reactions to barbed ...

And barbed wire is, well, barbed and sharp. “It’s real satisfying when it’s done,” says Wood. “But I’ll tell you, it’s work to get there.” ...

“Barbed wire” showed up around 1874, the OED says, though it is also spelled “barbwire,” “barb wire,” and “barb-wire.” The inventor is unclear; both the Devil’s Rope Museum in McLean, Texas, and the ...

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The barn owl is set to be released from the Chintimini Wildlife Center this summer after more than 50 days in care.

Barbed wire plays an important part in the East Zone Communists’ scheme of things, as demonstrated by those Vops who are laying a strand at the border in Berlin. (Gus Schuettler/Stars and Stripes) ...