"Barbed Wire" is the story of one-time cowboy Doug Monahan who runs a fencing crew outside the town of Twin Wells. Monahan, a likeable, hard-working Irishman, and his workers dig post - holes and string red painted barb wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land-hungry cattle barons. Their fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range cowman of the huge R Cross spread. With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann - who does the violent work of chasing squatters off the range - Rinehart wages a barb wire war against Doug Monahan.
- ISBN10 0786285362
- ISBN13 9780786285365
- Publish Date 31 December 2006 (first published 1 February 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Thorndike Press
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 333
- Language English