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a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks – loriemerson (loriemerson.net)
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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

By the 1890s, the barbed wire industry had become wealthy enough and powerful enough that they effectively quelled all opposition to the wire.

It (barbed wire) also played a significant role in “settling” the American west by violently asserting individual ownership over land that was already occupied by Native Americans.

The usual american story.