“I used to live in Alanreed and old Route 66 went through there, so I was playing on that road a lot,” says Charla Smith, who works at the Devil’s Rope Museum in the panhandle town of McLean. The museum has all sorts of barbed wire “That’s what the Indians called barbed wire because it tore up the men, the cows and horses.”
She has worked at the museum four years and got t...
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