Clippers in hand, volunteers snap the metal lines of an old fence, its strands drooping and thorns rusted. Once they sever the wire from the posts, they coil it up and cart it away. These are the ...

ARMAS EXPLAINS HOW THAT TERRAIN MEXICO AND MEXICO. SOME CLOSED OFF BY STEEL WALLS. OTHER AREAS BARDED FENCES >> SEVERAL MILES IS NORMANDY FENCING. DOZENING MILES IS ONLY BARBED WIRE. >> THAT'S ALL THE ...

One day as I was driving from my home near Kraemer Lake, I noticed a small herd of cattle in a pasture fenced with barbed wire. It brought back memories. Wire had been a much-used commodity on our ...

EAGLE PASS, Texas (Border Report) — Sixty-eight-year-old patriarch Jose Villafranca, of Honduras, led his and another family of migrants across the Rio Grande and then helped the group scale a fence ...

Troy is famous as the Collar City and ironmaking. But that wasn’t the only industry that made a mark on the American frontier. How about barb wire? The importance of barb wire was instrumental in ...