The museum closes for the winter and could not be reached. The Barbed Wire Identification Encyclopedia is the primary resource for collectors, and Harold L. Hagemeier, an author and former chairman of ...

GARDNERVILLE, Nev.— It can only mean one thing if Mike Call slams on the brakes while driving down the highway — barbed wire. Call's been known to spot a new type of barbed wire while driving 50 mph ...

La Crosse, Kansas is serious about barbed wire — it's the home to the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum and it even trademarked the phrase: "The Barbed Wire Capital of the World." This weekend, La Crosse ...

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 of ...

Barbed wire usually keeps animals and people out or in, not very courteously either. But Carolyn Holmes of Avinger, Texas, uses hers to create welcoming wreaths, and husband Rickie collects the ...

Minturn – Ever since Joseph Glidden patented barbed wire in 1874, the “devil’s rope” has been the object of contention: beloved by cattle ranchers but decried by open-range proponents, rustlers, fence ...

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 ...

SAN DIMAS – Most people pass barbed wire fences without a second glance. Some might look twice and give a thought to how painful it would be to come into contact with it, but likely nothing further.

Barbed wire came to be known as the “ devil's rope” and violent battles between farmers and cattlemen erupted as it stretched its way across the Great Plains. At one point in the controversy, laws ...

A compulsion to collect things is a well known human trait. For centuries, people have collected practically anything that interests them. This could be obvious things such as stamps and coins, or it ...

GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) - It can only mean one thing if Mike Call slams on the brakes while driving down the highway - barbed wire. Call’s been known to spot a new type of barbed wire while driving 50 ...

GARDNERVILLE, Nev. | It can only mean one thing if Mike Call slams on the brakes while driving down the highway — barbed wire. Call’s been known to spot a new type of barbed wire while driving 50 mph ...