Barbed Wire: The Invention that Tamed the West

By Andrew McCrea

AgWeb

Drive down just about any country road and you'll see it. You may have never thought it would be worthy of a large museum, but then again, you probably never imagined this had such a long and storied history. 

That history is on display in La Crosse, Kan., at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum. You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and, in many ways, tamed the West.

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