The Great Plains : environment and culture /

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Meeting name:Cultural Heritage of the Plains Symposium (1977 : University of Nebraska--Lincoln)
Imprint:Lincoln : Published by the University of Nebraska Press, for the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, c1979.
Description:xxviii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/266251
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Other authors / contributors:Blouet, Brian W., 1936-
Luebke, Frederick C., 1927-
ISBN:0803211554
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Holocene Cultural Adaptations in the Republican River Basin
  • The Cognition and Communication of Former Ideas About the Great Plains
  • Agricultural Adjustments to Great Plains Drought the Republican Valley, 1870-1900
  • Nebraska Populism as a Response to Environmental and Political Problems
  • The Great Plains as Part of an Irrigated Western Empire, 1890-1914
  • The Plains Country Town
  • The Standardized Railroad Station on the Great Plains, 1870-1920
  • Agricultural Technology in the Dust Bowl, 1932-40
  • Agricultural Risk in the Great Plains
  • The Great Plains: Promises, Problems, and Prospects
  • Space: Its Institutional Impact in the Development of the Great Plains
  • City and Village Population Trends in the Plains States
  • List of Contributors