Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

The Barbed Wire Identification Encyclopedia is the primary resource for collectors, and Harold L. Hagemeier, an author and former chairman of the Antique Barbed Wire Society, updates it whenever a new ...

He says 'I just know.'" Call, 78, of Fallon, Nevada, is a barbed wire aficionado and a member of the Antique Barbed Wire Society and the California Barbed Wire Collectors Association.

These days, strands of antique barbed wire – rusty and armed with elaborate fangs, nails, razor-sharp shards and other medieval-looking discouragements – are prized among collectors.

Case in point - VOA's George Dwyer recently visited the Midwestern U.S. state of Nebraska, where he met a collector with a passion for preserving strands of antique barbed wire. He's a man whose ...

The Western Regional Antique Barbed Wire Show will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the San Dimas Senior Center, 201 E. Bonita Ave.

Gerald Svoboda makes a lot of pointed remarks about his hobby. But that's to be expected from a barbed wire collector. Svoboda will be making a presentation on barbed wire to the monthly meeting ...

Barbed wire helped settle the west, and the largest collection west of the Rocky Mountains is in Paso Robles, California.

In his early 20s, Charles Hamby went out hunting squirrels on his uncle's ranch in Missouri and came home with a new hobby — collecting antique barbed wire.

He says ’I just know.’” Call, 78, of Fallon, Nevada, is a barbed wire aficionado and a member of the Antique Barbed Wire Society and the California Barbed Wire Collectors Association.

He says ‘I just know.’” Call, 78, of Fallon, Nevada, is a barbed wire aficionado and a member of the Antique Barbed Wire Society and the California Barbed Wire Collectors Association.