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    1. Barbed wire telephone lines brought isolated homesteaders together (and then let them snoop on each other)

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Frost, Natasha (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017-09-25
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10032
    Journal Title:
    Atlas Obscura
    Notes:
    11 pages, Author examines how two inventions of the 1870s (barbed wire and the telephone) changed the lonely lives of frontier Americans.