Smooth wire fences didn't work either - the cattle simply pushed through them. Barbed wire changed what the Homestead Act could not. Until it was developed, the prairie was an unbounded space ...

You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and ... designed and patented a type of wire fencing known as barbed wire. In a short time, his invention ...

The plans said the barbed wire fence would keep the land in "good agricultural and environmental condition" as it would enclose the grazing cattle. However, the planning inspectorate denied ...

The influence of the Frying Pan Ranch in changing the history of the American West is immeasurable. It proved the usefulness ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing a mysterious group that built a barbed-wire fence around 1,400 acres ... “These lands support long-standing livestock grazing for local ranchers and ...

It is reported that the construction of the barbed wire fence will be carried out quickly since soldiers have the experience of creating such barriers on the Polish-Belarusian border WARSAW ...

An aristocrat has lost his bid to erect a barbed wire fence around a common close to his 17th century estate. Lord Charles Townshend, who owns Raynham Estate, hoped to construct the fencing around ...

The deers are getting trapped in the barbed wire fencing Deer are dying after getting ... grazing so we bring in animals like ponies, cattle and sometimes sheep to graze areas of grassland and ...