Late in 1876, so the story goes, a young man named John Warne Gates built a wire-fence pen in the middle of San Antonio, Texas. He rounded up some of the toughest and wildest longhorns in all of ...

Jennifer Royer, the museum curator at Landis Valley, says it is a fence wire stretcher. It was used to install wire fencing onto fence posts in a pasture, Royer says. Timothy Crider of Marion ...