TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Lyn Ellen AU - Abbott,Scott H. TI - The perfect fence: untangling the meanings of barbed wire T2 - Connecting the greater west series SN - 9781623495831 AV - F594 .P474 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - College Station PB - Texas A and M University Press KW - Wire fencing KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Barbed wire KW - Metaphor in literature KW - American fiction KW - Themes, motives KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1660699&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -