at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum. You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and, in many ways, tamed the West. Listen to an episode of American ...

Smooth wire fences didn't work either - the cattle simply pushed through them. Barbed wire changed what the Homestead Act could not. Until it was developed, the prairie was an unbounded space ...

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A wire winder made by John Cotherman (photo) and his father Bill mostly uses materials that John had on hand. A cattle operation ... To roll up barb wire, Cotherman made a spool, which bolts ...

My Friesian cross recently suffered a nasty wound from a barbed wire fence as it tried to eat ... in hot weather conditions for maximum returns Livestock insurance: The new growth frontier for ...

Posts for wire boundary or cattle fences can be 25 feet apart ... Posts for wire fences don't have to support weight, but must be close enough to maintain tension in the wire. The spacing for a ...

The most dangerous type of long-spiked barbs, known as “vicious wire,” would cut through the cattle’s hide, resulting in ...

4. Fences - Lack of wood for fencing meant farmers could not keep cattle off their crops. This led to trouble with the cattlemen. Barbed wire (patented by Joseph Glidden in 1874) solved the ...

Brooks Nader channeled Pamela Anderson's sexy look in Barb Wire while out in New York City. The model, 27 — who has sparked romance rumors with her Dancing with the Stars partner Gleb ...

The year 1891 saw the start of the Johnson County War, in which Wyoming cattle barons hired an assassination squad to eliminate small ranchers who had the temerity to erect barbed-wire fences ...

The barbed wire placed in Cyprus’ buffer zone near the villages of Akaki, Peristerona, and Astromeritis to kerb migrant flows is still there, despite government promises to remove it ...

Newborn Simeon Williams-Lambert is held by his father, Jules Williams-Lambert, while his mother, Jasmine Williams-Lambert, left, uses the photo booth inside Barb the Breast Express, a bus on a ...