The Great Plains

The Great Plains
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 544
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0803297025
ISBN-13 : 9780803297029
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Plains by : Walter Prescott Webb

A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers

Great Plains

Great Plains
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781466828889
ISBN-13 : 1466828889
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Great Plains by : Ian Frazier

National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.

The Plains

The Plains
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Publisher : Text Publishing
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9781925355901
ISBN-13 : 192535590X
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Plains by : Gerald Murnane

This is the story of the families of the plains—obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology—and of the man who ventured into their world. First published in 1982, The Plains is a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Lerner, author of the internationally acclaimed novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, and a work of criticism, The Hatred of Poetry.

Homesteading the Plains

Homesteading the Plains
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781496202291
ISBN-13 : 1496202295
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Homesteading the Plains by : Richard Edwards

"Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plainsdemonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plainsprovides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. "--

Plains

Plains
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 28
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0736837159
ISBN-13 : 9780736837156
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Plains by : Christine Webster

Describes plains, including how they form, plants and animals on plains, how people and weather change plains, plains in North America, and the West Siberian Plain.

Encyclopedia of the Great Plains

Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 962
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0803247877
ISBN-13 : 9780803247871
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Great Plains by : David J. Wishart

"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have

Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 493
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393634105
ISBN-13 : 0393634108
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West by : Anne F. Hyde

Finalist for the 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize "Immersive and humane." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and create protective circles of kin. Beginning in the seventeenth century, Native peoples—Ojibwes, Otoes, Cheyennes, Chinooks, and others—formed new families with young French, English, Canadian, and American fur traders who spent months in smoky winter lodges or at boisterous summer rendezvous. These families built cosmopolitan trade centers from Michilimackinac on the Great Lakes to Bellevue on the Missouri River, Bent’s Fort in the southern Plains, and Fort Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest. Their family names are often imprinted on the landscape, but their voices have long been muted in our histories. Anne F. Hyde’s pathbreaking history restores them in full. Vividly combining the panoramic and the particular, Born of Lakes and Plains follows five mixed-descent families whose lives intertwined major events: imperial battles over the fur trade; the first extensions of American authority west of the Appalachians; the ravages of imported disease; the violence of Indian removal; encroaching American settlement; and, following the Civil War, the disasters of Indian war, reservations policy, and allotment. During the pivotal nineteenth century, mixed-descent people who had once occupied a middle ground became a racial problem drawing hostility from all sides. Their identities were challenged by the pseudo-science of blood quantum—the instrument of allotment policy—and their traditions by the Indian schools established to erase Native ways. As Anne F. Hyde shows, they navigated the hard choices they faced as they had for centuries: by relying on the rich resources of family and kin. Here is an indelible western history with a new human face.

The Greater Plains

The Greater Plains
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9781496227072
ISBN-13 : 1496227077
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Greater Plains by : Brian Frehner

The Greater Plains tells a new story of a region, stretching from the state of Texas to the province of Alberta, where the environments are as varied as the myriad ways people have inhabited them. These innovative essays document a complicated history of human interactions with a sometimes plentiful and sometimes foreboding landscape, from the Native Americans who first shaped the prairies with fire to twentieth-century oil regimes whose pipelines linked the region to the world. The Greater Plains moves beyond the narrative of ecological desperation that too often defines the region in scholarly works and in popular imagination. Using the lenses of grasses, animals, water, and energy, the contributors reveal tales of human adaptation through technologies ranging from the travois to bookkeeping systems and hybrid wheat. Transnational in its focus and interdisciplinary in its scholarship, The Greater Plains brings together leading historians, geographers, anthropologists, and archaeologists to chronicle a past rich with paradoxical successes and failures, conflicts and cooperation, but also continual adaptation to the challenging and ever-shifting environmental conditions of the North American heartland.

Plains

Plains
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Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1403456852
ISBN-13 : 9781403456854
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Plains by : Patricia Whitehouse

This book explores plains, describing the grassland plains around the world, how they affect the people who live in these areas, and how animals and plants of the plains need protection.

The Plains

The Plains
Author :
Publisher : Text Publishing
Total Pages : 182
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781921921117
ISBN-13 : 1921921110
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Plains by : Gerald Murnane

This haunting novel is a classic of Australian literature. A nameless young man arrives on the plains and begins to document the strange and rich culture of the plains families. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail: a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself.