(Ebook) The Great Plains 2nd Edition by WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB ISBN 1496231333 9781496231338

(Ebook) The Great Plains 2nd Edition by WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB ISBN 1496231333 9781496231338

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ISBN 10: 1496231333 
ISBN 13: 9781496231338
Author: WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB

This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. 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,” Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which “practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered.”

This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design.

(Ebook) The Great Plains 2nd Table of contents:

I. Introduction
II. The Physical Basis of the Great Plains Environment
1. How the Great Plains Were Built
2. The Climate of the Great Plains
3. The Plant Life of the Great Plains
4. Animal Life on the Great Plains
III. The Plains Indians
1. Characteristics of the Plains Indians
2. The Spread and Use of the Horse among the Plains Indians
3. Horsemanship and Weapons
4. The Sign Language of the Plains Indians
IV. The Spanish Approach to the Great Plains
1. The Spanish Colonial System Unsuited to the Great Plains
2. The Spanish Explorers on the Plains: A Period of Success
3. The Spanish Colonial Period: The Beginning of Failure
V. The American Approach to the Great Plains
1. Exploring the Great Plains: Marking the Trails
2. Creating the Tradition of the “Great American Desert”
3. The Texas Approach to the Great Plains: The Texans Touch the Plains
4. The Great Plains Block the Expansion of the South
VI. The Cattle Kingdom
1. The Origin of the Kingdom
2. The Spread of the Kingdom
3. The Evolution of the Range and Ranch Cattle Industry, 1866–1928
4. The Ways of Life on the Cattle Range
5. The Twin Spectacles of the Range: The Round-up and the Drive
VII. Transportation and Fencing
1. Railroads in the Great Plains
2. The Fence Problem
VIII. The Search for Water in the Great Plains
1. The Available Supply of Moisture in the Great Plains
2. Well-Making and Windmills
3. Irrigation in the Great Plains
4. Dry Farming: Conservation of Soil Moisture
5. Some Vagaries of the Search for Water
IX. New Laws for Land and Water
1. Enlarging the Land Unit
2. The Development of the Land Law for the West
3. Development of the Western Water Laws
X. The Literature of the Great Plains and About the Great Plains
1. The Literature of the Frontier and the Cattle Kingdom
2. The Literature of the Farm
XI. The Mysteries of the Great Plains in American Life
1. What Immediate Effects Did the Great Plains Have Upon the Anglo-American?
2. Did Man Originate on the Plains or in the Forest?
3. Why Is the West Considered Spectacular and Romantic?
4. Why Was the West Considered Lawless? Was It Really Lawless or Did It Merely Appear Lawless?
5. Why Is the West Politically Radical?
6. What Has Been the Spiritual Effect of the American Adventure in the Great Plains on Women?
7. In Conclusion: Let Us Inquire What Has Been and What Is to Be the

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