Authors:Renee M. Laegreid, Sandra K. Mathews, Joan M. Jensen
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Keywords: plains, histories, american, north, women
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2011-11-15
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0896727289
ISBN-13: 9780896727281
The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences. From prehistory to the present, the Great Plains have played a significant role in the lives of women who moved to or across them, cleaving to cultural ideas and patterns while adapting to the rigors of the region. Twelve essaysarranged chronologically within sub-regionsdraw upon innovative theoretical and methodological approaches, including gender/transgender studies, decolonization of Native peoples, and the influence of nation states. Ric
Author: Ian Frazier
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: plains
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-05-04
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312278500
ISBN-13: 9780312278502
National BestsellerWith his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bulls cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capotes In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.
Authors:Webster, Christine,
Publisher: Capstone Pre
Keywords: earthforms, plains
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0736861483
ISBN-13: 9780736861489
Provides a description of the plains and explains how they form and change, along with some information on the kinds of plants and animals that can be found on the plains. Plains found in North America and in the world are highlighted including Russia’s West Siberian Plain.
Author: Walter Prescott We
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: plains
Number of Pages: 525
Published: 1981-08-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0803297025
ISBN-13: 9780803297029
This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of that arid, tree
Author:
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: indians, plains, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0803298625
ISBN-13: 9780803298620
Until the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians offers a sweeping overview, across time and space, of this story in 123 entries drawn from the acclaimed Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, together with 23 new entries focusing on contemporary Plains Indians, and many new photographs.Here are the peoples, places, processes, and events that have shaped lives of the Indians of the Great
Author: Robert H. Lowie
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: plains, indians
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 1982-06-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0803279078
ISBN-13: 9780803279070
First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie’s Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their languages, and listening to their legends and tales. After a half century of study, Lowie wrote this book, praised by anthropologists as the synthesis of a lifetime’s work. A preface by Raymond J. DeMallie situates the book in the history of American anthropology
Author: Patricia Whitehouse
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: library, first, heinemann, plains
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $25.36
ISBN-10: 1403456844
ISBN-13: 9781403456847
What are pampas? Are there plains in Hawaii? Where do prairie dogs live? Read this book to find out all about plains! Each book in the My World of Geography series explores one of Earth’s physical features. Find out what each one is like, where it is
