A key weapon in the struggle to settle America's plains, barbed wire was patented in 1873. Years of armed range fights and lawsuits ensued as ranchers and farmers separated livestock and grain crops, ending open grazing and encouraging small-scale...

Barbed wire, also known as barb wire[1] (and frequently in dialect form spelled bob[2] or bobbed[3]), is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s). It is used to construct inexpensive fences...

North Korea has started building a fence along parts of its border with China in an apparent move to prevent people from fleeing the impoverished communist country, a news report said SundayThe North has put posts on a six-mile stretch along a narrow tributary of...

Bud Ekins, a renowned off-road racer and stuntman who performed the famous motorcycle jump over barbed wire in the film "The Great Escape" and bounced a Mustang up and down the hills of San Francisco in "Bullitt," has died. He was 77.Ekins died of natural...

The prisoner was attempting to escape. As the man crawled under the barbed-wire fence, a shot echoed in the night sky and a patch of sand exploded in front of him. Caught, he crawled back into camp. He did not go fishing for trout that...