Like a painter with his paintbrush, Augustine Cortez Jr., the owner of Augie’s Barbed Wire Smoke House sets the gold standard on Texas barbecue. “I want to make it feel like you’re going to ...

That history is on display in La Crosse, Kan., at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum. You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and, in many ways ...