The Devil's Rope Museum, one of two barbed wire museums, has roughly 1,300 types of barbed wire on display, according to estimates by Gipson. Initially, she volunteered at the barbed wire museum ...

Drive down just about any country road and you’ll see it. You may have never thought it would be worthy of a large museum, but then again, you probably never imagined this had such a long and storied ...

When Frank Lorenti of Minturn, a rustic little burg down the road from the villageopolis of Vail in the Colorado mountains, put barbed wire up to keep snowmobilers off his property last winter, the ...

Few inventions that were designed in the 1870s that have not changed since they were patented, and they are still widely used in the 21st century. Barbed wire is an innovation that fits this category, ...

LA CROSSE, Kan. -- In the Hollywood version of the Old West, it was the rip-snorting, gun-toting cowboys who tamed the wild frontier. In reality, it was barbed wire that made the difference. Just ask ...

It’s ugly, dangerous and destructive. In its time, it was heralded as one of history’s great inventions. In the 1870s, barbed wire fencing was advertised as “The Greatest Discovery of the Age.” Joseph ...

BEATRICE — Officials at a federal homesteading monument want to string together barbed wire to make a unique, 606-foot commemorative fence. To highlight the impact of the 1867 invention of barbed wire ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the days of open range, cattle ...

NEWARK, N.J. -- Some business owners in this crime-plagued city say recent enforcement of a decades-old ordinance prohibiting some types of barbed wire and razor wire is making Newark more attractive ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Some business owners in this crime-plagued city say recent enforcement of a decades-old ordinance prohibiting some types of barbed wire and razor wire is making Newark more ...

The Spanish acting Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has announced the removal of the concertina wire on top of the border fences dividing the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla from the ...