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 ...

You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and ... designed and patented a type of wire fencing known as barbed wire. In a short time, his invention ...

A new project led by the Mule Deer Foundation in northeast Wyoming aims to replace burned-down livestock fences with wildlife ...

In Texas, open-range ranchers snipped fences to allow their cattle to pass. In New Mexico, Mexican American villagers ...

A group with ties to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints built the fence, claiming the land is ...

Bandit Heaven' details late 19th century hideouts in Wyoming and Utah — Robbers Roost, Brown’s Hole and Hole-in-the-Wall — ...

Tensions are mounting in southwestern Colorado after a group describing themselves as Cherokee natives with links to a Mormon sect erected a barbed wire ... fences shocked ranchers who graze ...

The Free Land Holder group says historic treaties give it ownership and the right to fence 1,400 acres inside the San Juan ...

One of the big ongoing jobs in Georgian village life is the maintaining of one’s boundaries. In this case, the ...

Officials in Geary County doused an out-of-control fire last week that caused widespread damage. Geary County Emergency ...

A group fenced off over 1400 acres of National Forest land north of Mancos in southern Colorado this week, triggering a ...

McBride said the Anderson County Sheriff's Office coordinated a convoy of vehicles loaded with essential supplies on Saturday ...