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One Third of a Nation
Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression
Av Lorena Hickok, Richard Lowitt m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
467 kr
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Between 1933 and 1935, Lorena Hickok traveled across thirty-two states as a "confidential investigator" for Harry Hopkins, head of FDR's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her assignment was to gather information about the day-to-day toll the Depression was exacting on individual citizens. …
Standing Bear Controversy
PRELUDE to INDIAN REFORM
Av Valerie Sherer Mathes, Richard Lowitt
Inbunden, 2003
481 kr
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In the spring of 1877 government officials forcibly removed members of the Ponca tribe from their homelands in the southeastern corner of Dakota territory, relocating them in the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. When Ponca Chief Standing Bear attempted to lead a group of his people home he was …
New Deal and the West
Häftad, 1993
275 kr
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This valuable survey of the impact of New Deal agencies and programs focuses on the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, the Pacific Northwest, and California during the period from 1932 to 1940.
Forty Years a Legislator
Av Elmer Thomas, Richard Lowitt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
306 kr
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The senator's own account of his service to Oklahoma and the nation through depression and warElmer Thomas (1876-1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state's first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, …
Henry a. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier
On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909
Av Richard Lowitt, Judith Fabry m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
291 kr
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt's agriculture secretary and vice-president, Henry A. Wallace, had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour ""in search of the Corn Belt farmer."" Young Henry was to report to the family journal, Wallace's Farmer, how …
Twentieth-Century Oklahoma
Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State
Häftad, 2016
283 kr
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Few writers have written as thoughtfully and extensively on Oklahoma politics and culture as Richard Lowitt. His work of the past six decades moves with ease among historical topics as various as agriculture, health, industry, labor, and the environment, offering an informed and enlightened …
Forty Years a Legislator
Av Elmer Thomas, Richard Lowitt m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
232 kr
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Elmer Thomas (1876–1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state’s first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped …
Letters from an American Farmer
The Eastern European and Russian Correspondence of Roswell Garst
Inbunden, 1987
531 kr
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American Outback
The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2006
254 kr
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To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in equal measure. Comprising land that Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico did not want, and that Texas, after entering the Union as a slave state, could …
