Plains Histories Series – serie
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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 …
From Syria to Seminole
Memoir of a High Plains Merchant
Inbunden, 2006
366 kr
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In August of 1897, in the small village of Henna, Syria, eighteen miles from Damascus, Mohammed (Ed) Aryain was born. As far back as he could remember, Ed dreamed of moving to the United States. In the early twentieth century Syria still suffered from high taxation and control under the Ottoman …
Ruling Pine Ridge
Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee
Inbunden, 2007
403 kr
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Reinhardt furnishes revealing portraits of Gerald One Feather, Dick Wilson, Russell Means; he offers a telling indictment of Pine Ridges economy. He is one of the few historians who understands the distinction DArcy McNickle made decades ago between loss and defeat. He and the late Vine Deloria, …
Ruling Pine Ridge
Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee
Häftad, 2009
283 kr
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Incorporating previously overlooked materials, including tribal council records, oral histories, and reservation newspapers, ""Ruling Pine Ridge"" explores the political history of South Dakotas Oglala Lakota reservation during the mid-twentieth century. Akim D. Reinhardt examines the reservations …
Railwayman's Son
A Plains Family Memoir
Av Hugh Hawkins, H.Roger Grant
Inbunden, 2006
304 kr
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Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his fathers job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. Before he turned twelve the family had lived in three Rock Island towns: Herington, Kansas; Goodland, Kansas; and, finally El Reno, Oklahoma. Such was the life of …
America's 100th Meridian
A Plains Journey
Av Monte Hartman, John R. Wunder
Inbunden, 2006
467 kr
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There's no denying [Hartman's] abilities as a photographer. Shape, color, and light, he has an impeccable eye for composition, for juxtaposing line against line, drawing the viewer's eye into his subject...In North Dakota, he likes a flood-drenched plain in orange twilight, one stretch of barbed …
Rights in the Balance
Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association V. Stuart
Inbunden, 2008
417 kr
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On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. Massive media attention to the grisly story soon spawned a historic collision between two of the most cherished American constitutional protections - the First …
Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder
And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns
Inbunden, 2008
363 kr
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The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histories in sensational incidents and quiet human connections, many recorded in detail here for the first time. After covering racial unrest in the remote …
