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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: How Barbed Wire Shaped the West and the World (Encore)
Description: When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, there was a rush of people who moved west to claim the free land that was offered. However, there was a problem. Creating physical divisions for plots of land on the prairie was difficult when there was no stone or wood. Eventually, there was a solution to the problem, which offered a cheap way to divide land…and created a whole host of new problems as well. Learn more about barbed wire and how it shaped the American West, warfare, and much more, on this episo...