99% Invisible-157- Devil's Rope by Roman Mars published on 2015-03-17T23:27:08Z In the mid 1800s, not many (non-native) Americans had ever been west of the Mississippi. When Frederick Law Olmstead visited the west in the 1850s, he remarked that the plains looked like a sea of grasses that moved "in swells after a great storm.” Massive herds of buffalo wandered the plains. Cowboys shepherded cattle across long stretches of no man's land. It was truly the wild and unmanaged west, but it was all about to change, due, in large part, to one very simple invention that would come to be known as "the devil’s rope." Genre public radio Comment by Peter Flockencier It's pronounced Dee - Kal - B 2016-01-12T19:11:36Z Comment by RJWhetstone Excellent ! 2015-03-26T15:10:00Z