Few inventions that were designed in the 1870s that have not changed since they were patented, and they are still widely used in the 21st century. Barbed wire is an innovation that fits this category, ...

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Late in 1876, so the story goes, a young man named John Warne Gates built a wire-fence pen in the middle of San Antonio, Texas. He rounded up some of the toughest and wildest longhorns in all of Texas ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Sept. 16, 1961. It is republished unedited in its original form. The photographs accompanying the article here were not originally ...