Add to ORKGCollected by Irene Carlisle Transcribed by Nathaniel Lucy Told by James M. Walden Busch, Arkansas Reel 140 Talk: First Wire Fence James M. Walden: I can remember the first ever barbed wire fence that was ever in this country. Irene Carlisle: Was that in a good while? Walden: Yeah, it's been fifty, fifty-five years or more, in that neighborhood. My father bought it. We had people come from Harrison, Arkansas up to see that barbed wire fence. It was a great mystery. Nobody never saw nothing like it. Carlisle: Really? Walden: He had a . . . and he bought of that wire around that. . . My dad owned three farms and - during his lifetime.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation