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The Devil’s Rope: A Brief, Un-Exhaustive History

What’s up with Barbed Wire? Where did it come from? Is its sole purpose to torment hikers and trespassers? Believe it or not, barbed wire took years of experimentation and hundreds of patents to perfect. There is much debate about whether this pointy fencing aided in ruining or taming the Wild, Wild West. 1500 – […]