Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
First edition.
College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2017]
1 online resource (xxiv, 272 pages)
Connecting the greater west series
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Perfect fence.
9781623495824
American fiction-- 19th century-- Themes, motives.
Barbed wire-- History-- 19th century.
Metaphor in literature.
Wire fencing-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
American fiction-- Themes, motives.
Barbed wire.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Manners and customs.
Metaphor in literature.
Wire fencing.
West (U.S.), History, 1860-1890.
West (U.S.), Social life and customs, 19th century.