Author: John C. Hudson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908397
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Plains Country Towns
Author: John C. Hudson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908397
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908397
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The 100 Best Small Towns in America
Author: Norman Crampton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671846718
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"A nationwide guide to the best in small-town living"--Cover subtitle.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671846718
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"A nationwide guide to the best in small-town living"--Cover subtitle.
The Small-Town Midwest
Author: Julianne Couch
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609384059
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Julianne Couch sets out to illuminate the lives and hopes of small-town residents from nine small communities in five states in the Midwest and Great Plains: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Residents are betting that the tide of rural population loss can't go out forever, and they're backing those bets with creatively repurposed schools, entrepreneurial innovation, and community commitment. From Bellevue, Iowa, to Centennial, Wyoming, the region's small-town residents remain both hopeful and resilient.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609384059
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Julianne Couch sets out to illuminate the lives and hopes of small-town residents from nine small communities in five states in the Midwest and Great Plains: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Residents are betting that the tide of rural population loss can't go out forever, and they're backing those bets with creatively repurposed schools, entrepreneurial innovation, and community commitment. From Bellevue, Iowa, to Centennial, Wyoming, the region's small-town residents remain both hopeful and resilient.
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803247871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
"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
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803247871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
"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
Changes in the Small Towns and Hamlets in the Great Plains States
Author: Jacklyn J. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Collapse of Small Towns on the Great Plains--a Bibliography
Author: Nancy Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Gateway to the Northern Plains
Author: Carroll L. Engelhardt
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912971
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
"Historian Carroll Engelhardt's Gateway to the Northern Plains chronicles the story of Fargo and Moorhead's growth. Once just specks on the vast landscape of the Northern Plains, these twin cities prospered, teeming with their own dynamic culture, economy, and politics. Moorhead developed first, boosted by railroad manager Thomas Hawley Canfield, who touted it as superior to Fargo. However, Northern Pacific Railway chose Fargo as its headquarters, and it became the "Gateway City" to North Dakota."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912971
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
"Historian Carroll Engelhardt's Gateway to the Northern Plains chronicles the story of Fargo and Moorhead's growth. Once just specks on the vast landscape of the Northern Plains, these twin cities prospered, teeming with their own dynamic culture, economy, and politics. Moorhead developed first, boosted by railroad manager Thomas Hawley Canfield, who touted it as superior to Fargo. However, Northern Pacific Railway chose Fargo as its headquarters, and it became the "Gateway City" to North Dakota."--BOOK JACKET.
A Girl of the Plains Country
Author: Alice MacGowan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368920227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368920227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Notes on the Drainage of Country Towns in the Plains of India, Etc
Author: Frederick Charles TEMPLE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Encounter on the Great Plains
Author: Karen V. Hansen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190203242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian land, and by 1929 Scandinavians owned more reservation acreage than their Dakota neighbors. Norwegian homesteader Helena Haugen Kanten put it plainly: "We stole the land from the Indians." With this largely unknown story at its center, Encounter on the Great Plains brings together two dominant processes in American history: the unceasing migration of newcomers to North America, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent. Drawing on fifteen years of archival research and 130 oral histories, Karen V. Hansen explores the epic issues of co-existence between settlers and Indians and the effect of racial hierarchies, both legal and cultural, on marginalized peoples. Hansen offers a wealth of intimate detail about daily lives and community events, showing how both Dakotas and Scandinavians resisted assimilation and used their rights as new citizens to combat attacks on their cultures. In this flowing narrative, women emerge as resourceful agents of their own economic interests. Dakota women gained autonomy in the use of their allotments, while Scandinavian women staked and "proved up" their own claims. Hansen chronicles the intertwined stories of Dakotas and immigrants-women and men, farmers, domestic servants, and day laborers. Their shared struggles reveal efforts to maintain a language, sustain a culture, and navigate their complex ties to more than one nation. The history of the American West cannot be told without these voices: their long connections, intermittent conflicts, and profound influence over one another defy easy categorization and provide a new perspective on the processes of immigration and land taking.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190203242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian land, and by 1929 Scandinavians owned more reservation acreage than their Dakota neighbors. Norwegian homesteader Helena Haugen Kanten put it plainly: "We stole the land from the Indians." With this largely unknown story at its center, Encounter on the Great Plains brings together two dominant processes in American history: the unceasing migration of newcomers to North America, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent. Drawing on fifteen years of archival research and 130 oral histories, Karen V. Hansen explores the epic issues of co-existence between settlers and Indians and the effect of racial hierarchies, both legal and cultural, on marginalized peoples. Hansen offers a wealth of intimate detail about daily lives and community events, showing how both Dakotas and Scandinavians resisted assimilation and used their rights as new citizens to combat attacks on their cultures. In this flowing narrative, women emerge as resourceful agents of their own economic interests. Dakota women gained autonomy in the use of their allotments, while Scandinavian women staked and "proved up" their own claims. Hansen chronicles the intertwined stories of Dakotas and immigrants-women and men, farmers, domestic servants, and day laborers. Their shared struggles reveal efforts to maintain a language, sustain a culture, and navigate their complex ties to more than one nation. The history of the American West cannot be told without these voices: their long connections, intermittent conflicts, and profound influence over one another defy easy categorization and provide a new perspective on the processes of immigration and land taking.