The Wire That Fenced the West by Henry D. McCallum (1965-12-02)

by Henry D. McCallum;Frances T. McCallum

Hardcover, no date

Status

Available

Call number

671.84 McC

Tags

nonfiction, Great Plains, history, barbed wire

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

University of Oklahoma Press (no date)

Description

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.

Subjects

Barbed wire
Wire fencing History

Original publication date

1965

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