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From maverick lands to managed lands: Ranching and school lands in Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
(2000)
In this dissertation I trace the decisions affecting school lands since 1890, and I try to assess how these decisions impact Cimarron County ranchers. The story is ongoing, and my contribution is to provide a more complete ...
Gettysburg, a living battlefield.
(2000)
National Park Service (NPS) battlefields are designed as eternal tributes, but there is little permanence about these landscapes. Structures, scenery, and stories frequently change in relation to public memory of the events ...
Colorado's 'island community': Irrigation and industrial agriculture in Colorado's Grand Valley, 1882--1920.
(2001)
This dissertation examines the relationship between this local community and the broader economy. Many historians have portrayed small towns as passive recipients of outside corporate influence, but this community recruited ...
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 ...
The shaping of a Creek (Muscogee) homeland in Indian territory, 1828--1907.
(2000)
Federal authorities removed the Creek (Muscogee) Nation from Alabama and Georgia to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) beginning in 1828. By the time of statehood in 1907, the Creek had shaped a new homeland in a ten-county area ...