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 ...
Clippers in hand, volunteers snap the metal lines of an old fence, its strands drooping and thorns rusted. Once they sever the wire from the posts, they coil it up and cart it away. These are the ...
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 ...
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, ...
BEATRICE (AP) - Officials at a federal homesteading monument want to string together barbed wire to make a unique, 606-foot commemorative fence.BEATRICE (AP) - Officials at a federal homesteading ...
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