Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Cars and bicycles head towards the Minturn Market in downtown Minturn, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Barbed wire shaped the American West, but it kills, injures and blocks migrating wildlife. Some ranchers are trying high-tech alternatives that could reduce the need for it. On a list of the most ...

In 1904, the El Paso Herald called for “a barb wire fence along our side of the Rio Grande” to keep out “undesirable aliens.” The newspaper wasn’t referring to Mexicans, but to Chinese immigrants, ...