Pioneer Portfolio 5
Split Rails
(Photo by Mike Hall)
Before the use of metal posts and barbed wire, the fences that early pioneers used to make corrals and maintain property bountries were made of split rails, or trees cut, and splt lengthwise. Abraham Lincoln spent much of his youth in the forest cutting timber for rails and for firewood. This scene is from the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial on the path to the recreated Thomas Lincoln farm.
Who is Elias Tobias? Go to his biography that is also in Spanish.