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Barbed wire (Devils Rope)

 
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This is an excellent story on the settlement of the west, and how barbed wire was the main driving force for changing the west landscape.

https://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/99-invisible-157-devils-rope
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/03/23/_99_invisible_roman_mars_the_history_of_barbed_wire.html

 
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