There's nothing more reminiscent of frontier life than split rail fencing. They look the sort of thing that is easy to make in scale model form - luckily there's a Thomsomfeld album to help you along the way.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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Defending Fort Stanwix
Old Fort Niagara has a free zoom lecture for this on the 21 November. Check the webpage. In Defending Fort Stanwix , William L. Kidder tel...
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This is the first stage of an excellent project. This is the corner tower of a recreation of the fort in the movie Drums Along the Mohawk... -
It's not easy photographing smaller figures but Richard has done an excellent job. These miniatures are excellent. He says 'The... -
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This came out in 1984. Was an excellent addition to a small set of books.
I put up a split rail dog leg fence when we moved into the new cabin to protect the garden. Later I fenced the whole are with modern fencing, but I retained the split rails and rebuilt the dog leg fence at the entrance to the front yard. They are easy to construct but labour intensive splitting and carrying rails.
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