Delbert Treu ranches near the panhandle town of Alanreed on the old Route 66, now IS 40. He and his wife Ruth founded the Devil’s Rope Museum in nearby McLean in 1991. It’s a Western Heritage museum full of barbed wire items. Native Americans referred to barbed wire as the Devil’s Rope because it hurt animals and people.One popular item in the museum is a brassiere made of barbed w...
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