Barbed Wire
The history of Barbed wire
Barb Wire History and How the West was Lost
Facts about Barbed Wire
Barbed Wire
By the 1870s westward expansion of the agricultural frontier across the Great Plains had been stopped by the lack of good fencing material to protect crops from cows .On November 24, 1874, Joseph F. Glidden, was granted a patent for barbed wire consisting of barbs wrapped around a single strip of wire and held in place by twisting that strand around Charles goodnight a pioneer of the open plains, fenced along the Palo Duro Canyon, accepting the need for clear title to grazing rights and the eventually bringing the end of the open range.
Joseph Glidden
Facts about Joseph F Glidden
Joseph Glidden was born in Clarendon, New York, in 1813. He became a school teacher but first he married Clarissa Foster. In 1837 he purchased a small farm there he made barbed wire.Later his wife, daughter, and two sons all died. When he was 38 he remarried a woman named Luvinda Warne. He was elected sheriff of an entire county. He made the first examples of barbed wire on a coffee bean grinder. Glidden got a patent and then later he sold half of it and became the richest man in the United States. Somewhere in the future he owned a 250,000 acre ranch in Texas. He also owned a hotel, bank, and a newspaper company. Joseph F. Glidden died later in 1906.
Website used for this biography
http://spartacus-educational.com/WWglidden.htm
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How barbed wire effected the open range
The people were claiming land and were able to section off land. Which was keeping people from trespassing on their land.
Wire cutting
Wire cutting became a law after people started cutting wire to get on other peoples land. People would cut wire to get to places and steal crops.
pictures of barbed wire
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This is one of the ways that Glidden made barbed wire.
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The way that barbed wire looks after it is made.
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This is one of the ways barbed wire was first made in a bean grinder.