A hat made of barbed wire, one of several exhibits at an unusual dual-themed museum in the little town of McLean in the Texas panhandle Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Most of the space is occupied by the Devil's Rope Museum, a collection and explanation of the history of barbed wire, the m
A hat made of barbed wire, one of several exhibits at an unusual dual-themed museum in the little town of McLean in the Texas panhandle Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Most of the space is occupied by the Devil's Rope Museum, a collection and explanation of the history of barbed wire, the material that truly DID tame the west, or at least contain its roaming cattle into defined spreads. (Its critics, mostly cattlemen, coined the devil's rope description of the spiked wire. A smaller part of the museum is devoted to the old Mother Road, Route 66, which in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s wound from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, and went right through McLean.;
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