The museum closes for the winter and could not be reached. The Barbed Wire Identification Encyclopedia is the primary resource for collectors, and Harold L. Hagemeier, an author and former chairman of ...

The Devil's Rope Museum, in the Texas Panhandle town of McLean, tells the story of one of the Old West's most maligned products. Despite its sharp reputation, barbed wire was as instrumental in taming ...

For Lynn Hawkins, the bumper sticker on his pickup truck says it all: “Get Hooked On Barbed Wire.” Hawkins, of rural Sturgis, has been hooked on collecting all types of barbed wire – and its history – ...