Barbed Wire: The Fence that Changed the West

Tilden began with three questions, all of them still unanswered. Who created Dippel Springs? Who built the wooden cattleguards in the Pingree-Springfield area and when? And where did the unusual barbed wire come from on the old Thomas Chandler place? The last question gained at least some form via this book: https://books.google.com/books/about/Barbed_Wire.html?id=ixxWPgAACAAJ which identified the one eighth of a mile strand as the "Stubbe Plate". Joanne Liu's book also provided a great deal of background information on barbed wire in general. An immensely readable history, it will surprise you that such a simple technology changed the world so dramatically. Here's a rendition of the Stubbe Plate taken from its 1883 patent application: