Geoff Holden asks: >Why do I get all the hard ones? I have a query as to WHO invented the >rural electric fence and WHEN. The standard reference books have failed me. >If you know, please aid the impression that I have (retarded) omniscience! >Rush to your keyboard and share your erudition... I seem to remember someone mentioning a museum of barbed wire, which could be a likely source. Patricia Nelson Limerick's "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West" (New York: Norton, 1987) has a good bibliography that may point to something. Robbin Murphy Managing Editor, ArtNet [log in to unmask]