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" The perfect fence : "
Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
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BL
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854731
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Bennett, Lyn Ellen
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The perfect fence : : untangling the meanings of barbed wire /\ Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
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First edition.
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College Station :: Texas A & M University Press,, [2017]
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Connecting the greater west series
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1 online resource (xxiv, 272 pages)
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1623495830
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: 9781623495831
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9781623495824
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Constructing the meaning of barbed wire in late nineteenth-century America -- "Infernal machines": debating the meaning of barbed wire fences in the media -- "Secure and safe alike": legislative challenges and inventive responses -- "The perfect fence": selling barbed wire -- The barbed wire motif in literature -- "Don't fence me in": barbed wire in the western -- "Intimate fences": barbed wire in the New West -- "The thorny fence": reifying the religious metaphor -- "I helped him build his own fences": cutting the wire, cutting the lies.
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American fiction-- 19th century-- Themes, motives.
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Barbed wire-- History-- 19th century.
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Metaphor in literature.
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Wire fencing-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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American fiction-- Themes, motives.
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Barbed wire.
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HISTORY-- United States-- State Local-- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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HISTORY-- United States-- State Local-- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Manners and customs.
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Metaphor in literature.
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Wire fencing.
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West (U.S.), History, 1860-1890.
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West (U.S.), Social life and customs, 19th century.
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United States.
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West United States.
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978/.02
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F594.B464 2017
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Abbott, Scott H.
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