When the attendees of the annual barbed wire show at the Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, Texas, start telling stories, Davie Gipson says she usually finds something else to do rather than listen. "They ...

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

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.

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. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window ...

“Barbed wire is still the most economical and the most commonly used fencing forproducers; it is also the most reliable. There are no other products that I know of thatcan successfully keep ...

Think of an item, any item - from buttons, to bells, to beer bottles - and somewhere in the world you will find someone involved in collecting, or trying to collect, all of the multiple varieties ...

Some farmers bulldoze barbed wire fencing into the ditches so they can run equipment to the edge of the field. ... Antique barbed wire usually is considered to be wire manufactured prior to 1925.

The block wire is designed so that cattle that were unused to wire fencing would see it. More than 1,000 barbed wire designs are on display at the Pioneer Museum in Paso Robles.

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. “ I was just hunting and found a ...

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.

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.