In the novel's epilogue, surveyors set up Cartesian coordinates using fence posts and barbed wire to impose rational order on the open prairie, creating coherence and taming the American West.
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“a team of surveyors are not just surveying the open prairie they are setting up cartesian coordinates using fence posts and barred wire and what they are doing is making rational and taming the american west”
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