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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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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