附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-277).
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE: Barbed-Wire Fence Makers -- Threshold of Promise -- Prelude to 1874 -- Incident at De Kalb -- Pre-Glidden Fences -- Promoting Barbed Wire -- Moonshine and Monopoly -- Patent Litigation -- Barbed-Wire Barons -- PART TWO: Barbed-Wire Fence Builders -- "This Cockeyed World of Cattle Folk" -- "The Big Die-Up" -- "King of the Coasters" and Brother Jon -- "Startin' in to Play H__ with Texas" -- "Improvements" on the Public Domain -- "Trail to Rail" -- "Alambre! Alambre! Alambre!" -- A Nineteenth Century Allegory -- PART THREE: Types of Barbed Wire -- Modern Trends -- Classification -- Identification -- Bibliography -- Index.
摘要:At the heart of this chronicle of "bob wire" is the story of three men, who happened to meet and become interested together in a curious sample of armored fencing shown at the 1873 county fair in De Kalb, Illinois.
