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   John Warne Gates (May 18, 1855 – August 9, 1911), also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire. He was born and raised in what is now West Chicago, Illinois.

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3. www.bbc.com › news › business-40448594'The devil's rope': How barbed wire changed America - BBC

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   Aug 6, 2017 · BBC. 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...

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   Nov 6, 2019 · John Warne (Bet-a-Million) Gates, barbed wire promoter and oilman, son of Asel and Mary (Warne) Gates, was born in Winfield, Illinois, on May 18, 1855. His two brothers were killed early in life and left John an only child at fifteen.

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   John Warne Gates (May 18, 1855 – August 9, 1911), also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire. He was born and raised in what is now West Chicago, Illinois.

6. www.hmdb.org › mJohn Warne Gates Historical Marker

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   May 22, 2020 · Illinois native John Warne Gates (1855-1911) arrived in Port Arthur in 1899 at the urging of his business partner and town promoter, Arthur Stilwell. (A historical marker located in Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas.)

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   Sep 1, 2017 · John Warne Gates described it more poetically: “Lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust.” We simply call it barbed wire. Compared to the telephone, barbed wire wreaked huge changes on the American West and much more quickly.

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   Who was John Warne Gates?

   • John Warne Gates (May 18, 1855 – August 9, 1911), also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire. He was born and raised in what is now West Chicago, Illinois.

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   Did John Warne Gates 'bet a Million Gates'?

   • John Warne Gates - who would become known as "Bet A Million Gates" - took bets from onlookers as to whether the powerful beasts could break through the fragile-seeming wire. They couldn't. Even when Gates's sidekick, a Mexican cowboy, charged at the cattle howling Spanish curses and waving a burning brand in each hand, the wire held.

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   Did John Warne Gates have a Longhorn?

   • But never mind. John Warne Gates — a man who later won the nickname “Bet‐A‐Million Gates” — began to take bets as to whether these powerful, ornery longhorns could break through the fragile-seeming wire.

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   Why did Gates & Clifford Sue Washburn-Moen?

   • The suit, filed in U. S. District Court, claimed the machines Gates and Clifford used in the production of their product were a direct copy of those used by Washburn-Moen. The suit also called for Gates and Clifford to pay US$100,000 in damages to the company. As they avoided process servers, Gates and Clifford made a plan to save their company.

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9. www.encyclopedia.com › gates-john-warneGates, John Warne | Encyclopedia.com

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   John Warne Gates, 1855–1911, American financier and promoter, known as Bet-a-Million Gates, b. near Chicago. He discovered a market for wire fencing on the Western plains, began the manufacture of fencing in St. Louis, and, by a succession of consolidations and promotion schemes, organized (1898) the American Steel and Wire Company. Source ...