User talk:Jacquestoby

This article ignores the tradition of unfenced free range in the American South. Cattle and hogs ran free in parts of Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and the Missouri Ozarks until the 1950's. When I was growing up in a small sawmill town in southern Arkansas, my father had to build a fence around our yard to keep cattle and hogs out. Before he built the fence, they came into the yard at night leaving ticks and undesirable debris. Many think the tradition of unfenced free range came from the borderlands of southern Scotland and northern England where most of the hill and backwoods folk of the South migrated from. Jacquestoby (talk) 16:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)