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Author: Curt McConnell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780803231634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the development of midwestern community automobile manufacture prior to the Great Depression and identifies five early car makers and their contributions to the automobile industry
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 9780803247871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: John Morgan Stephens
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 892
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this report is to discuss briefly the experiments conducted at the Northern Great Plains Field Station, located in Morton County, North Dakota, two miles south of Mandan. No attempt is made to describe the experiments in detail, but rather to present the lines and scope of the work at the station and give a summary of results obtained from the various experiments. The projects are grouped and divided into three departments: arboriculture, horticulture, and agronomy. The cooperative grazing experiment is a coordinate part of the agronomic work. The work and results are reported separately by the men in charge of the respective departments.
Author: Ian Frazier
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2001-05-04
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1466828889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational 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: Kenneth F. Dewey
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2019-05-01
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1496216334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe weather of the Great Plains is extreme and highly variable, from floods to droughts, blizzards to tornadoes. In Great Plains Weather Kenneth F. Dewey explains what makes this region's climate unique by presenting a historical climatology of extreme weather events. Beginning with tornadoes--perhaps the most formidable plains weather phenomena--he describes the climatology of these storms and discusses memorable tornadoes of the plains. As one of the storm chasers who travels the Great Plains in the spring and summer tracking severe weather, Dewey also shares some of his experiences on the road. Dewey then goes on to discuss famous blizzards, from the "School Children's Storm" of 1888 to more recent storms, along with droughts and floods. Precipitation, or the lack thereof, has long determined human activity in the region; exacerbated by the vagaries of climate change, it continues to have a significant economic and cultural impact on the people of the plains. Dewey's absorbing narrative is complemented by images of tornadoes, snowstorms, and flash floods that he amassed in forty years of climatological research.
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region VIII.
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780803293113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mainline Protestant churches played a vital role in the settlement of the West. Yet historiansøhave, for the most part, bypassed this theme. This account recreates the unique religious and cultural mix that sets this region apart from the rest of the nation. From itinerant circuit riders to powerful urban bishops, western clergy were continually involved in the maturation of their communities. Their duties on the frontier extended far beyond delivering Sunday sermons; they also served as librarians, counselors, social workers, educators, booksellers, peacekeepers, and general purveyors of culture. Weaving together the varied experiences of men and women from the five major Protestant denominations?Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and Episcopal?the author discusses their responses to life on the frontier: the violence, the tumultuous growth of the cities, the isolation of farm life, and the widespread hunger, especially among women, for ?refinement.?
Author: R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008-06-01
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 0803224095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth examination of the effects of World War II on the Great Plains states brings to life the voices and experiences of the residents of the region in recounting the stories of the daily concerns of ordinary people.
Author: Curt McConnell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780804743969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA richly illustrated history of the first cross-country auto trips exposes the role of these well-publicized jaunts in changing the way the public felt about this new technology. (Transportation)
