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“A great mass of incompetent men”: Contested medical frontiers in Oklahoma, 1880-1940
(2022-05-13)
This thesis observes the movement of White aspiring physicians to Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the racial and professional interactions that ensued. Like other Whites, ...
The establishment of Mesa Verde as a national park
(1966)
Mesa Verde has a unique distinction in that it is the only man-made National Park in the United States. It consists of hundreds of cliff dwellings --homes of the Pueblo Indians from around 1100 to 1300 A.D. These dwellings, ...
"The Burro Evil": The Eradication of Feral Burros in Grand Canyon National Park
(2017-05-12)
A population of feral burros has lived in the Grand Canyon since Spanish conquistadors brought the animals to North America in the sixteenth century. More burros entered the canyon in the late nineteenth century with ...
Workers in the Field and Lawyers in the Court: The CRLA, Poverty Law, and Environmental Justice in Modern California
(2020-05-08)
As part of the War on Poverty in the mid-1960s, the federal government under President Lyndon Johnson began funding dozens of legal service agencies throughout the nation. The largest of these agencies was the California ...