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The modern collecting mania las spread to, of all things, >arbed wire. Collecting the old-time fencng wire with sharp points is i fast-growing hobby, the Naional Geographic Society ;ays. Enthusiasts willingly >ay as much as $12.50 for an [8-inch segment of rusty,, but rare, wire. “Barb-arlans," as the [ectors call themselves,-swap specimens of Sunderland Kink, Ross’ Four-Point, Scutt's Clip Lazy Plate, The Winner, Ellwood Ribbon, and other choice samples of "the fence that tamed the West*. The late historian Walter Prescott Webb called barbed wire the Industrial Revolution’s “greatest contribution to the economic conquest of the Great Plains". Supplies of wood and stone were meager on the prairies where crops needed protection against herds of half-wild cattle. Barbed wire was the answer to a farmer's prayer for fencing that was "pig tight, horse high, and bull strong". The origins of barbed wire became entangled in bitter patent fights, but historians agree that Joseph Glidden, a farmer of De Kalb, Illinois was the first successful manufacturer of barbed wire. Glidden, who was born in New Hampshire, patented his wire in 1874. With typical Yankee ingenuity, he adapted
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