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"Barbed Wire Pioneers
--Inventing a Community"
Award-winning VHS documentary featured in the
1998 Silver State Documentary Festival, where it earned
2nd Place in the Biography Division.
$20 includes tax
Total Run Time: 52 minutes

 
Barbed Wire Pioneers is a documentary created by graduate
students at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb IL) under the
direction of Dr. Jeffrey Chown. This award-winning video tells
the story of barbed wire from its invention in the late 19th Century,
to its lasting legacy today. Barbed Wire Pioneers is the tale of three men, Issac Ellwood, Joseph Glidden and Jacob Haish. It is the
story of success, competition and community spirit that
set in motion events still felt today.

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