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"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 …
Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region of 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 …