Want to explore more than 2,000 varieties of barbed wire in the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum ... where you can search by museum and state. Museums can join the Blue Star Museums program all summer ...

That history is on display in La Crosse, Kan., at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum. You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and, in many ways ...

Call first became interested in barbed wire after seeing a small collection in 1969 at a state fair ... His favorite location to collect was in Kansas, where ranchers who lacked access to trees ...

Barbed wire is still used by farmers and ranchers today and is showcased at museums dedicated specifically to the invention in Kansas, Texas, and Illinois. The impressive number of patents ...