"The Mormon fence exhibits a distinctive quality ambling beside country roads and enclosing barnyard...and pasture in makeshift manner springing again from that predicate of pragmatism. A few yards of fence commonly displays a half dozen and more materials and styles. The vertically placed split pole fence, weather worn and sun bleached...and even with a few shreds of bark remaining, is a frequent sight in old agrarian Mormon Country."

Gary Brent Peterson, 1974