Bennett, Lyn Ellen, <br/><br/>
The perfect fence :  untangling the meanings of barbed wire / 
Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott ; foreword by Sterling Evans. 
 - First edition. 
 - College Station :  Texas A and M University Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Connecting the greater west series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781623495831 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017017043 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Wire fencing--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Barbed wire--History--19th century.<br/>Metaphor in literature.<br/>American fiction--Themes, motives.--19th century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F594  / .P474 2017