- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Frost, Natasha (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-09-25
- URL:
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-lines-homesteaders-prairie-america-history
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10032
- Journal Title:
- Atlas Obscura
- Subject Term:
- development issues, farm families, farm women, farmers, history, innovations, risk communication, rural communities, rural development, rural families, rural populations, rural women, social factors, technological advancement, telephone communication, information technology, rural lifestyle, health care, isolation, fences, and barbed wire
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Author examines how two inventions of the 1870s (barbed wire and the telephone) changed the lonely lives of frontier Americans.
