One of the most common wires, Glidden's Winner, is named for barbed wire's inventor, Joseph Glidden, and the 1874 court case in which he successfully defended his patent. Barbed wire's glory days were ...

Old barbed wire fences are a major hindrance, and a leading cause of death, for elk and other wildlife in the West. Conservation groups and critter organizations have long worked to remove these ...

WEBVTT REPORTER: I TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS BARBED WIRE THAT THE OWNER HERE AT VICKS VITTLES COUNTRY KITCHEN PUT UP TO CURB CRIME. WELL HE’S BEING FORCED TO TAKE IT DOWN BECAUSE OF THE LAW. BUT I TRACKED ...

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, ...

Kids examine a tiny droid at Seattle's Museum of Flight, one of about 2,000 museums taking part in this year's Blue Star Museums program. (Museum of Flight) Want to explore more than 2,000 varieties ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Saturday marked an initial outing for a group near Evergreen calling themselves the “Barbed Wire Warriors” after obtaining the first-ever permit from the Colorado Department of ...

Breathes there a native Texan who has never snagged a pair of jeans on a strand of barbed wire? Today barbed wire seems a natural part of the Texas landscape, but to our great-great-grandparents it ...

It wasn't cowboys, covered wagons, gunslingers or prospectors that won the west. According to Mark Nelson, president of of the California Barbed Wire Collectors Association, it was windmills and ...

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 ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - From 1942 to 1945, Japanese Americans were stripped of their constitutional rights and forced into camps, surrounded by armed guards and barbed wire. For many of the people in ...