The Great Plains
"Walter Prescott Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of the Great Plains, and argues that its environment ". . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders.""--
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- Full title :The Great Plains / Walter Prescott Webb ; introduction by Andrew R. Graybill.
Summary
"Walter Prescott Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of the Great Plains, and argues that its environment ". . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders.""--
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- Publication Date:©2022
- Edition:Second edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication:Lincoln
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2022
Notes
Originally published: 1931.
"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."--Title page.
The Physical Object
- Description:xli, 586 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781496231338, 1496231333
- oclc:on1264176074
- LC Classification:F591
- Dewey Decimal:978
Table of Contents
The physical basis of the Great Plains environment -- The Plains Indians -- The Spanish approach to the Great Plains -- The American approach to the Great Plains -- The cattle kingdom -- Transportation and fencing -- The search for water in the Great Plains -- New laws for land and water -- The literature of the Great Plains about the Great Plains -- The mysteries of the Great Plains in American life.
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