McCallum, Henry, D.

The wire that fenced the West / by Henry D. and Frances T. McCallum. - Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. - xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes index

At the heart of this chronicle of "bob wire" is the story of three men, who happened to meet and become interested together in a curious sample of armored fencing shown at the 1873 county fair in De Kalb, Illinois.

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Barbed wire
Wire fencing--History


West (U.S.)--History