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ISBN: 0816637962 Year: 2002 Publisher: Minneapolis (Minn.) : University of Minnesota press,
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ISBN: 3737607141 373760715X Year: 2019 Publisher: Kassel : Kassel University Press GmbH,
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Year: 1890 Publisher: London : Walter Scott,
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ISBN: 1412367069 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicoutimi : J.-M. Tremblay,
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ISBN: 1412359198 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicoutimi : J.-M. Tremblay,
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ISBN: 0700602267 0700631003 Year: 1982 Publisher: University Press of Kansas
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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 automobiles and people to cross freely. The author blends traditional history and folklore to trace the origins of the cattle guard and to describe how, in true folk fashion, the device in its simplest form—wooden poles or logs spaced in parallel fashion over a pit in the roadway—was reinvented and adapted throughout livestock country.Hoy traces the origins of the cattle guard to flat stone stiles unique to Cornwall, England, then through the railroad cattle guard, in use in this country as early as 1836, and finally to the Great Plains where, probably in 1905, the first ones appeared on roads. He describes regional variations in cattle guards and details unusual types. He provides information on cattleguard makers, who range from local blacksmiths and welders to farmers and ranchers to large manufacturers.In addition to documenting the economic and cultural significance of the cattle guard, this volume reveals much about early twentiethcentury farm and ranch life. It will be of interest not only to folklorists and historians of agriculture and Western America, but also to many Plainsarea farmers, ranchers, and oilmen.
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Year: 1961 Publisher: Wittenberg : Ziemsen,
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Year: 1968 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Harper and Row,
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ISBN: 0313225508 Year: 1982 Publisher: Westport (Conn.) : Greenwood press,
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Year: 1975 Publisher: Louvain : Centre d'études européennes, Université catholique de Louvain,
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