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Revealing accounts: General stores on the south central plains, 1870--1890.
(2005)
This study also places Texas and Indian Territory into the larger context of late nineteenth-century America, arguing the prevailing value systems and cultural dispositions of the late nineteenth century transcended regional ...
"Aboriginally yours": The Society of American Indians and United States citizenship, 1890--1924.
(2005)
His public life had been dedicated to improving the condition of Native people. Eastman worked with progressive reformers who, like himself, believed in the power of Christian civilization and democracy to improve the ...
Long lots in New Mexico and Texas: The French connection, 1693--1731.
(2005)
Long lots are linear or rectangular agricultural fields, so configured to give access to water courses or roads. They exist in France and where French people settled in North America, primarily Quebec and Louisiana. They ...
Southern Plains hunter-gatherer adaptations during the Late Archaic: A study in optimal foraging.
(2005)
In this study, optimal foraging theory is used to evaluate hunting and butchering practices as well as the residence patterns of Late Archaic hunter-gatherers from the southern Plains. Their behavior is represented in the ...
Of birds, guano, and man: William Vogt's "Road to Survival".
(2005)
William Vogt's best-selling and influential neo-Malthusian text Road to Survival articulated the conservation sensibility of his day and was literally read around the world. Vogt (1902--1968) came to his conclusions about ...