Encyclopedia of the Great Plains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of the Great Plains write by David J. Wishart. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of the Great Plains write by David J. Wishart. This book was released on 2011. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With 1,316 entries contributed by more than one thousand scholars, this groundbreaking reference work captures what is vital and interesting about the Great Plains--from its temperamental climate to its images and icons, its historical character, its folklore, and its politics.--From website.
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians write by David J. Wishart. This book was released on 2007-03-01. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians offers a sweeping overview, across time and space, of this story in 123 entries drawn from the acclaimed Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, together with 23 new entries focusing on contemporary Plains Indians, and many new photographs. ΓΈ Here are the peoples, places, processes, and events that have shaped lives of the Indians of the Great Plains from the beginnings of human habitation to the present?not only yesterday?s wars, treaties, and traditions but also today?s tribal colleges, casinos, and legal battles. In addition to entries on familiar names from the past like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, new entries on contemporary figures such as American Indian Movement spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog and activists Russell Means and Leonard Peltier are included in the volume. Influential writer Vine Deloria Sr., Crow medicine woman Pretty Shield, Nakota blues-rock band Indigenous, and the Nebraska Indians baseball team are also among the entries in this comprehensive account. Anyone wanting to know about Plains Indians, past and present, will find this an authoritative and fascinating source.
The Great Plains
The Great Plains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Plains write by Walter Prescott Webb. This book was released on 1931. The Great Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of that arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics to substantiate his thesis that the 98th meridian constituted an institutional fault-- comparable to a geological fault-- at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered."
The Great Plains Region
The Great Plains Region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Plains Region write by Amanda Rees. This book was released on 2004-12-30. The Great Plains Region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the many ways in which America's Heartland have served as an oft-unheralded cross-section of America's melting pot. Includes an introductory essay on Great Plains regional identity as well as a timeline, bibliography, and index. Includes the states of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and surrounding areas.
