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This article from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), describes how barbed wire was important for ranchers in the West in the 1800s and how Joseph Glidden improved the original patent for barbed wire.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)