Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

From Pamela Anderson’s iconic barbed wire armband to tribal designs, cartoon characters, ‘tramp stamp’ lower back tattoos, flowers, butterflies, roses, dolphins, suns, Yin and Yang and old ...

The year that Glidden secured his barbed wire patent, 32 miles (51km) of wire were produced. Six years later, in 1880, the factory in De Kalb turned out 263,000 miles (423,000km) of wire, enough ...