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

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
 
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.

Table of contents:

Cover

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Preface

I. Introduction

II. The Physical Basis of the Great Plains Environment

III. The Plains Indians

IV. The Spanish Approach to the Great Plains

V. The American Approach to the Great Plains

VI. The Cattle Kingdom

VII. Transportation and Fencing

VIII. The Search for Water in the Great Plains

IX. New Laws for Land and Water

X. The Literature of the Great Plains and About the Great Plains

XI. The Mysteries of the Great Plains in American Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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