Listen to an episode of American Countryside with Andrew McCrea: In 1874, Joseph Glidden, a banker, businessman and a farmer, designed and patented a type of wire fencing known as barbed wire.

(FOX 56) — A 74-year-old woman who was previously reported ... she could see a woman lying in the field entangled in a barbed wire fence. Multiple law enforcement agencies were dispatched ...

Old barbed wire fencing can be a serious hazard to wildlife, but the Wildsight Creston Valley branch is making a difference.

When I was a farm girl, we had two pastures. Both of them had rusty, old barbed wire fences surrounding them. They also had electric fences as a double insurance that our cattle herd would stay in ...

The puny old fence marked the border between the north ... to chat and remember the days when their biggest worry was the barbed wire that could puncture their ball.