The Rape Of The Great Plains
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Author | : Kenneth Ross Toole |
Publisher | : Little Brown |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Electric power-plants |
ISBN | : 9780316849906 |
Explores the coal-mining and utility interests that are preparing to stripmine the Northern Great Plains, the issues involved, the struggle with local citizens, and alternatives.
Author | : Kenneth Ross Toole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Electric power-plants |
ISBN | : |
Explores the coal-mining and utility interests that are preparing to stripmine the Northern Great Plains, the issues involved, the struggle with local citizens, and alternatives.
Author | : Ian Frazier |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001-05-04 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1466828889 |
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.
Author | : Brian Frehner |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496227077 |
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.
Author | : Merlin P. Lawson |
Publisher | : University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R. Douglas Hurt |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081654462X |
The Great Plains, known for grasslands that stretch to the horizon, is a difficult region to define. Some classify it as the region beginning in the east at the ninety-eighth or one-hundredth meridian. Others identify the eastern boundary with annual precipitation lines, soil composition, or length of the grass. In The Big Empty, leading historian R. Douglas Hurt defines this region using the towns and cities—Denver, Lincoln, and Fort Worth—that made a difference in the history of the environment, politics, and agriculture of the Great Plains. Using the voices of women homesteaders, agrarian socialists, Jewish farmers, Mexican meatpackers, New Dealers, and Native Americans, this book creates a sweeping survey of contested race relations, radical politics, and agricultural prosperity and decline during the twentieth century. This narrative shows that even though Great Plains history is fraught with personal and group tensions, violence, and distress, the twentieth century also brought about compelling social, economic, and political change. The only book of its kind, this account will be of interest to historians studying the region and to anyone inspired by the story of the men and women who found an opportunity for a better life in the Great Plains.
Author | : Marjane Ambler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780700604227 |
investigative journalist Ambler uncovers the legal, economic, political, and cultural issues that have shaped the development of Indian-owned resources along with the fate of their owners. She identifies the bonds of paternalism, exploitation, and dependency that have retarded economic development and chronicles the Indians' progress in breaking them. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Nancy Burns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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Author | : Richard S. Wheeler |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2000-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780812545166 |
Awesome Projects from Unexpected Placesfeatures more than thirty projects designed by the users of instructables.com. These users have repurposed and reused everyday items they've found around their homes, in their backyards, or even in local junkyards to create unique furnishings and decorations for their homes and meaningful gifts for others. Equipped with the vision to not only see the latent potential and beauty in common items, but also the skills necessary to transform those objects into creative and new applications, these projects are at the core of the maker movement and can inspire us all. Readers of Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places will learn how to construct: Bottle cap tablesConcrete lamps3D string artSand fire gardensScrew-nut and wooden ringsParacord braceletsCigar box guitarsWooden beer mugsTest tube spice racksMetal rosesAnd more
Author | : John William Bennett |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803212541 |
This “anthropological history” tells the story of homesteading and community organization in the Canadian-American West through personal reminiscences and locally written histories. John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl interpret those stories through the lenses of history and social science, and they present a view of settlement experience as one phase of the evolving postfrontier society and culture of western North America. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890–1915 contains a synthesis of Canadian and U.S. settlement experiences giving, to the extent possible, equal space to both sides of the international boundary. The experiences of people in these adjacent territories were virtually identical, with emigrant populations from the same countries and socioeconomic strata. Among other aspects of the homesteading experience, the authors explore the “interactive adaptation” that developed in the West. Networks of mutual aid, reverently remembered by the voices found in these pages, eased the inevitable hardships.