The Road-master's Assistant and Section-master's Guide ...
Author : William S. Huntington
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Railroad tracks
ISBN :
Author : William S. Huntington
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Railroad tracks
ISBN :
Author : William S. Huntington
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385455855
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : William S. Huntington
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : William S. Huntington
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1877
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William S. Huntington
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Railroad tracks
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Roadmasters' and Maintenance of Way Association
Publisher :
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
List of memberrs in 12th-
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Author : James F. Hoy
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0700631569
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 cattle-guard 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 twentieth-century farm and ranch life. It will be of interest not only to folklorists and historians of agriculture and Western America, but also to many Plains-area farmers, ranchers, and oilmen.
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN :