IVIV Bobwire & Jolly Rancher

John Carvill johncarvill at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 12:49:28 CDT 2009


>
> Of course barbed wire had big political consequences in the "taming"
> of the Wild West.  I seem to remember the gauchos in GR mourning the
> loss of freedom they had before the open plains were cordoned off.
>

Ah yes, right. Well, it's easy to think of so many negative
connotations of barbed wire. Yet Bigfoot collecting rolls of vintage
wire seems somehow endearing!



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