That history is on display in La Crosse, Kan., at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum. You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and, in many ways ...

Brad Penka can't say enough about barbed wire's winning of the West. Eli Reichman “Barbed wire was a lifesaver for this region,” says Brad Penka, president and curator of the Kansas Barbed ...