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08 October 2013

Rustic History, Fort Missoula, Montana



Split rail fences are an adaptable barrier, and early settlers in Montana’s west were all about adaptability.

Historically built where hardware was a scarce commodity, they can also be dismantled - in part or whole - if rails are later needed for other purposes.

2 comments:

  1. If rails could talk - what stories they would tell -

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  2. Well, there'd be one about a small blonde girl keeping obediently quiet while watching the, ummm... calf alteration proceedings - even when she fell off and was scratched by the strand of barbed wire....

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