Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Established in 1893, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Historical Society, publishes essays, edited primary documents, and book reviews on Virginia history and related topics.
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Volume 117 / Number 2
"Fighting over Fencing: Agricultural Reform and Antebellum Efforts to Close the Virginia Open Range"
- Drew Addison Swanson, pp. 103–139 Abstract
"Codification in Virginia: Conway Robinson, John Mercer Patton, and the Politics of Law Reform"
- Christopher M. Curtis
, pp. 141 –180 Abstract
Book reviews
COVER: Edward Beyer's mid-nineteenth-century painting, View of
Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, presents an idyllic image of a rural community. Dominating the foreground are a series of fences enclosing open fields that surround the village. Drew Swanson's article on fencing in antebellum Virginia, "Fighting over Fencing: Agricultural Reform and Antebellum Efforts to Close the Virginia Open Range," begins on page 104.
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