List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface to Kansas Open Books Edition
Preface
1. The Cattle Guard: An Overview
2. The Need for Cattle Guards
3. Cattle-Guard Innovators, 1900 to 1920
4. The Spread of Cattle Guards, 1920-1930
5. The Railroad Cattle Guard
6. Cornish Stiles, Lich Gates, and Cattle Guards
7. Lore about Cattle Guards
8. Unusual Cattle Guards
9. Makers of Cattle Guards
10. The Economics of Cattle Guards
11. Cattle Guards around the World
Appendix
Cattle-guard Questionnaire Sent to Prospective Informants
Letter of Inquiry Sent to Newspapers and Journals
The First Cattle -Guard Patent, Granted to Thomas J. West, Whitehall, Virginia, 11 March 1837
University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service Plans
Sources of Information
List of Contributors of Information
Index