River Valley Pioneer Museum
To many of us in this area, barbed wire is a common sight. It’s a relatively inexpensive fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. Did you know barbed wire started a war and is known to be the invention that tamed the West?
Under the Homestead Act of 1862, which offered 160 acres of land in the West to those willing to reside on and improve…