Barbed wire is a commonly used product in agriculture, transportation and other industries. The unique design and structure make this wire creation sturdy — and sometimes harmful to the touch. And on ...

Back during the ranching days in Evergreen, Colorado, a barbed wire fence was an important tool for ranchers to make sure their property was safe. But now that it's open space, they are no longer ...

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, ...

Society / An excerpt from the new book The Myth of Red Texas. David Griscom Before the rise of the modern GOP, Texas was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1870s, few in Texas had heard of barbed wire, and those who had didn’t really believe it could be strong enough to pen cattle. All of that changed in 1876 when two barbed wire salesman for the ...