The sod-house frontier, 1854-1890 a social history of the northern plains from the creation of Kansas & Nebraska to the admission of the Dakotas

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Bibliographic Details
OCLC:53304460
Main Author: Dick, Everett Newfon, 1898-
Language:English
Published: New York : D. Appleton-Century Co., 1937.
Series:USAIN State and Local Literature Preservation Project. Kansas.
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > Great Plains.
Great Plains > History.
Format:

Monograph Microform

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Table of Contents:
  • Westward ho!
  • Preemption days
  • Town-building mania
  • The river cities of the fifties
  • Log-cabin days
  • Pioneer finance
  • Road ranches
  • The sod house
  • Homesteading
  • Vigilante days
  • The homesteader-cattleman war
  • Hunting and trapping
  • Whites and Indians
  • Colonies and colonizing agencies
  • Nature frowns on mankind
  • Women and children on the frontier
  • Homesteader days and ways
  • Fuel and water
  • Food and clothes
  • Sports
  • Beginning of machine farming
  • The grange
  • Readin' an' 'ritin' an' 'rithmetic
  • The church and the frontier
  • The coming of the iron horse
  • Pleasure and play
  • The prairie town
  • Along main street
  • The pioneer newspaper
  • The pioneer doctor
  • Lawyers and legal proceedings
  • Turbulent days in county affairs
  • Itinerants
  • Pioneer industries
  • Crude frontier customs.

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