BETHALTO — A pair of pigeons shared a section of barbed wire fencing on a very cold Tuesday morning in Bethalto. Pigeons mate for life, but with temperatures below freezing sitting on a wire in the ...
In 1904, the El Paso Herald called for “a barb wire fence along our side of the Rio Grande” to keep out “undesirable aliens.” The newspaper wasn’t referring to Mexicans, but to Chinese immigrants, ...