The Cattle Guard Its History and Lore

• मुख्य लेखक: Hoy, James F. (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: University Press of Kansas 1982
• विषय: Rural communities
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. A U.S. folk innovation now in use throughout the world, the cattle guard functions as both a gate and a fence: it keeps livestock from crossing, but allows a...