The HISTORY. In 1876 salesman John W. Gates brought barbed wire to Texas when he wagered $1 million that he could build a fence that would capably contain cattle.

The first barbed wire fences at the border were proposed to keep out Chinese migrants. They’ve been debated for more than a century, including an ongoing federal court case.

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On the humble barbed-wire fence, the five-strand sentinel of Texas woods and plains. Thousands of miles of it divide the state.

Today, an estimated 620,000 miles of fencing, most of it barbed wire, stretches across the rural West, and its toll on the region continues to mount.Animals that try to jump over or wiggle under ...

PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A motorcycle operator and passenger were seriously injured in a crash into a tree and barbed wire fence north of Prineville late Sunday afternoon, Crook County sheriff ...

A yearling whitetail that was found dead in a barbed wire fence. Photo by Natalie Krebs. With an estimated 620,000 miles of old barbed wire criss-crossing the Western U.S., the group points out, there ...

A 17-year-old scaled a barbed-wire fence at the Multi-County Juvenile Attention Center on Monday and fled. Law enforcement is asking anyone with information about the youth to call the Sheriff's ...

The prison officials discovered the cat sneaking over a barbed wire fence, according to video posted online Prison officials in Costa Rica caught an unlikely suspect attempting to smuggle drugs ...

EVERGREEN, Colo. — A decades-old, barbed wire fence along Highway 74 near Evergreen is finally coming down — thanks to a first-of-its-kind partnership between a nonprofit and the State of ...