On this day in history, November 24, 1874, the first commercially successful barbed wire is patented
Glidden was an American farmer originally from Charlestown, New Hampshire. After growing up in Clarendon, New York, and finishing school, he returned to his father’s farm to work, according to ...
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Joseph F Glidden and the history of barbed wire
Barbed wire is something we all know, and perhaps use on a regular basis. the history behind this 'devil's rope' is an interesting one. It certainly changed the world. My videos tend to get ...
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 ...
Abandoned barbed-wire fences from former ranches disrupt wildlife migration across the Sonoran desert. The Tucson based group ...
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