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Hurt is the author of numerous books including The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830, The Great Plains during World War II, The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century, [2] Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South, Food, [3] Agriculture during the Civil War, and ...
The Great Plains, The Handbook of Texas Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888, in Panola County, Texas – March 8, 1963, near Austin, Texas ) [ 3 ] was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West .
Flores is the author of thirteen books. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America (New York: W.W. Norton, 2022). Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (New York: Basic/Perseus, 2016) American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016)
Willa Sibert Cather (/ ˈ k æ ð ər /; [1] born Wilella Sibert Cather; [2] December 7, 1873 [A] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.
Prairie madness was caused by the isolation and tough living conditions on the prairie. The level of isolation depended on the topography and geography of the region. Most examples of prairie madness come from the Great Plains region. One explanation for these high levels of isolation was the Homestead Act of 1862. This act stipulated that a ...
The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, formerly the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, is an annual literary award awarded by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to the previous year's best nonfiction book on the Great Plains. The books are required to be full-length, first editions, in English, and published/copyrighted ...
The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States (1973); Comprehensive coverage of the 1950s and 1960s in each state. Raban, Jonathan. Bad Land: An American Romance (Vintage 1996); winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Rees, Amanda.
Three other books of her Great Plains series, The Buffalo Hunters (1954), one of her best known, and The Cattlemen (1958) and The Beaver Men (1964) each develop the history of the West in relation to an animal species. Sandoz liked to encourage other writers.