
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


You can’t go anywhere in Texas without running into “the devil’s rope”–barbed wire. It keeps livestock in AND out. It protects property and discourages trespassers. But barbed wire hasn’t been around all that long. When it came, it changed the face of Texas and the West. It also made some people very, very wealthy. Learn how “bob wire” took over Texas in this latest episode of Wise About Texas
By Ken Wise4.9
10401,040 ratings
You can’t go anywhere in Texas without running into “the devil’s rope”–barbed wire. It keeps livestock in AND out. It protects property and discourages trespassers. But barbed wire hasn’t been around all that long. When it came, it changed the face of Texas and the West. It also made some people very, very wealthy. Learn how “bob wire” took over Texas in this latest episode of Wise About Texas

41,200 Listeners

1,804 Listeners

1,677 Listeners

1,252 Listeners

1,527 Listeners

859 Listeners

4,050 Listeners

2,314 Listeners

6,093 Listeners

3,631 Listeners

2,927 Listeners

767 Listeners

44,032 Listeners

191 Listeners

3,354 Listeners