The Wpa Guide To 1930s Oklahoma
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The Wpa Guide To 1930s Oklahoma
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Author : Angie Debo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Wpa Guide To 1930s Oklahoma written by Angie Debo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
The Wpa Guide To 1930s Kansas
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Author : Federal Writers' Project
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Wpa Guide To 1930s Kansas written by Federal Writers' Project and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
A reissue of a 1939 guide to Kansas compiled as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression years, providing information not only about the attractions of the state, but serving as a cultural chronicle of an earlier time.
The 1929 Bunion Derby
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Author : Charles B. Kastner
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-31
The 1929 Bunion Derby written by Charles B. Kastner and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed the “Bunion Derby” by the press, this was the second and last of two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged forty-six gut-busting miles a day during seventy-eight days of nonstop racing that took them from New York City to Los Angeles. Among this group, two brilliant runners, Johnny Salo of Passaic, New Jersey, and Pete Gavuzzi of England, emerged to battle for the $25,000 first prize along the mostly unpaved roads of 1929 America, with each man pushing the other to go faster as the lead switched back and forth between them. To pay the prize money, race director Charley Pyle cobbled together a traveling vaudeville company, complete with dancing debutantes, an all-girl band wearing pilot outfits, and blackface comedians, all housed under the massive show tent that Pyle hoped would pack in audiences. Kastner’s engrossing account, often told from the perspective of the participants, evokes the remarkable physical challenge the runners experienced and clearly bolsters the argument that the last Bunion Derby was the greatest long-distance footrace of all time.
Global West American Frontier
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Author : David M. Wrobel
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Global West American Frontier written by David M. Wrobel and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with History categories.
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.
The Wpa Guide To 1930s Missouri
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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The Wpa Guide To 1930s Oklahoma
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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Reprint. Originally pub. in 1941 by the Univ. of Oklahoma Press as: Oklahoma, a guide to the Sooner State. Includes index.
The Wpa Guide To 1930s New Mexico
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Behalf of U of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1989
The Wpa Guide To 1930s New Mexico written by and has been published by University of Chicago Behalf of U of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
"In no other single book is the essence of this region gathered for the general reader so schematically, so accessibly and so interestingly as in this volume ... New Mexico has reason to be proud of this civilized and entertaining book." So wrote Axton Clark in the New York Times when this practical guidebook was first published as part of the Work Projects Administration's American Guide Series. Half a century later, it stands as a historic document containing a wealth of information about New Mexico's places and people. The WPA Guide to 1930s New Mexico leads the modern traveler along eighteen fascinating road trips and offers and unimpeachable reference of comparing what is with what once was. Enhanced by the outstanding photography of Laura Gilpin and Ernest Knee, it captures the spirit of a place and time that still lingers in the "Land of Enchantment."
Route 66 Adventure Handbook
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Author : Drew Knowles
language : en
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Release Date : 2017-05-16
Route 66 Adventure Handbook written by Drew Knowles and has been published by Santa Monica Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-16 with Travel categories.
Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity. For this updated and expanded fifth edition, Drew Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural wonders, Art Deco masterpieces, vintage motels and cafes, unique museums, offbeat attractions, fascinating artifacts and icons, and kitschy tourist traps. The addition of city maps, showing the multiple paths of Route 66 and displaying the exact locations of points of interest, is a major improvement over the already critically acclaimed fourth edition of the book. The fifth edition also includes hundreds of beautiful new photographs and the addition of dozens of new attractions. Additionally, GPS coordinates have been added for virtually all of the photos, so that travelers can plug the information into their smartphones and other navigation devices and instantly determine where each photo was taken and compare it to the condition of that particular site at the time of their visit. Filled with wonderfully quirky side trips and fun bits of trivia, Route 66 Adventure Handbook is the most authoritative resource for anyone looking to explore the Mother Road. Fasten your seat belts!
Chronicles Of Oklahoma
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Author : James Shannon Buchanan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Chronicles Of Oklahoma written by James Shannon Buchanan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Indians of North America categories.
Red Earth
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Author : Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Red Earth written by Bonnie Lynn-Sherow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Before the great Land Rush of 1889, Oklahoma territory was an island of wildness, home to one of the last tracts of biologically diverse prairie. In the space of a quarter century, the territory had given over to fenced farmsteads, with even the racial diversity of its recent past simplified. In this book, Bonnie Lynn-Sherow describes how a thriving ecology was reduced by market agriculture. Examining three central Oklahoma counties with distinct populations—Kiowas, white settlers, and black settlers—she analyzes the effects of racism, economics, and politics on prairie landscapes while addressing the broader issues of settlement and agriculture on the environment. Drawing on a host of sources—oral histories, letters and journals, and agricultural and census records—Lynn-Sherow examines Oklahoma history from the Land Rush to statehood to show how each community viewed its land as a resource, what its members planted, how they cooperated, and whether they succeeded. Anglo settlers claimed the choice parcels, introduced mechanized farming, and planted corn and wheat; blacks tended to grow cotton on lands unsuited for its cultivation; and Kiowas strove to become pastoralists. Lynn-Sherow shows that as each group vied for control over its environment, its members imposed their own cultural views on the uses of nature—and on the legitimacy of the 'other' in their own relationship with the red earth. Lynn-Sherow further reveals that racism, both institutionalized and personal, was a significant factor in determining how, where, by whom, and to what ends land was used in Oklahoma. She particularly assesses the impact of USDA policy on land use and, by extension, environmental and social change. As agricultural agents, railroads, and local banks encouraged white settlers to plant row crops and convert to market farms, they also discriminated against Indians and blacks. And, as white settlers prospered, they in turn altered the relationship of Indians and African Americans with the land. The transformation of Oklahoma Territory was a protracted power struggle, with one people's relationship to the land rising to prominence while banishing the others from history. Red Earth provides a perceptive look at how Oklahoma quickly became homogenized, mirroring events throughout the West to show how culture itself can be a major agent of ecological change.