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Book Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma  Kansas  and Nebraska

Download or read book Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma Kansas and Nebraska written by Iralee Barnard and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once covered by wild grasses, America's heartland is by nature a grassland, populated with plants whose ecological importance, practical value, and subtle beauty we are only now beginning to comprehend. Of the 3,000 species of wild plants in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, in the heart of the heartland, only two of every ten are grasses, and in some prairies just one or two of these can account for 80 to 90 percent of the ground cover. It is these major wild grasses, the native and the naturalized, that this field guide covers, as well as some not found in such large numbers but nonetheless widespread and easily noticed. From the more familiar (like big bluestem, little bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, buffalograss, sideoats grama, and blue grama) to the less recognized (such as ticklegrass, rice cutgrass, and prairie wedgegrass), from the weedy to the desirable, each of the seventy species profiled in these pages appears in full-color, its fundamental characteristics clearly identifiable by novice and expert alike: flowers and seed heads, leaf details with size comparisons, and whole mature plant pictures. Though of ever broadening interest--to ranchers, gardeners, naturalists, and restorers of prairies and native landscapes--grasses are notoriously tricky to identify. A number of features of this guide make the task considerably easier. A handy system of "finding lists," allows a user to navigate quickly to identification of an unknown grass. Descriptions, written in clear and easily understood terms, focus on the primary characteristics of each species and are accompanied by distribution maps. And an illustrated glossary, leaf comparison section, and table of grass flowering dates provide additional information and opportunities for recognizing and appreciating various species. Putting these plants into ecological and cultural context, botanist and grass specialist Iralee Barnard gives readers, whether curious amateur, passionate naturalist, or professional, a new way of understanding the grasses of America's prairies and plains, including their plant structures and adaptations, their natural history, ecological associations, and cultural importance.

Book The Great Plains Rough Guides Snapshot USA  includes Missouri  Oklahoma  Kansas  Nebraska  Iowa  South Dakota and North Dakota

Download or read book The Great Plains Rough Guides Snapshot USA includes Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska Iowa South Dakota and North Dakota written by Greg Ward and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide Snapshot to the Great Plains is the ultimate travel guide to this vast and legendary part of the USA. It guides you through the states of Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and North and South Dakota with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions from historic St Louis and "tornado-capital" Oklahoma to the Wild West heritage of Wichita and Dodge City and monumental Mount Rushmore. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible. Also included is the Basics section from The Rough Guide to the USA, with all the practical information you need for travelling stateside, including driving tips, accommodation and food and drink costs, plus background on festivals, sports and outdoor activities. Also published as part of The Rough Guide to the USA. Full coverage: Missouri, St Louis, Kansas City, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Tornado Alley, Oklahoma City, Kansas, Wichita, Dodge City, Nebraska, Omaha, Lincoln, The Oregon Trail, Iowa, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Des Moines, South Dakota, Pierre, The Badlands, The Black Hills, North Dakota, Grand Forks, Theodore Roosevelt National Park (Equivalent printed page extent 86 pages).

Book The Nebraska Kansas Act of 1854

Download or read book The Nebraska Kansas Act of 1854 written by John R. Wunder and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 turns upside down the traditional way of thinking about one of the most important laws ever passed in American history. The act that created Nebraska and Kansas also, in effect, abolished the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited slavery in the region since 1820. This bow to local control outraged the nation and led to vicious confrontations, including Kansas' subsequent mini-civil war. At the 150th anniversary of the Kansas-Nebraska Act these scholars reexamine the political, social, and personal contexts of this act and its effect on the course of American history.

Book Annual Reports of the War Department

Download or read book Annual Reports of the War Department written by United States. War Dept and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Banks   Branches Data Book  June 30  1981  Kansas  Nebraska  Oklahoma

Download or read book Banks Branches Data Book June 30 1981 Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : United States. Bureau of Soils
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  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Bureau of Soils and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Artisan

Download or read book The American Artisan written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baron and the Bear

Download or read book The Baron and the Bear written by David Kingsley Snell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s—part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation proclamation of college basketball—helped destroy stereotypes about black athletes. Filled with revealing anecdotes, The Baron and the Bear is the story of two intensely passionate coaches and the teams they led through the ups and downs of a college basketball season. In the twilight of his legendary career, Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp (“The Baron of the Bluegrass”) was seeking his fifth NCAA championship. Texas Western’s Don Haskins (“The Bear” to his players) had been coaching at a small West Texas high school just five years before the championship. After this history-making game, conventional wisdom that black players lacked the discipline to win without a white player to lead began to dissolve. Northern schools began to abandon unwritten quotas limiting the number of blacks on the court at one time. Southern schools, where athletics had always been a whites-only activity, began a gradual move toward integration. David Kingsley Snell brings the season to life, offering fresh insights on the teams, the coaches, and the impact of the game on race relations in America.

Book The World of Juliette Kinzie

Download or read book The World of Juliette Kinzie written by Ann Durkin Keating and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked any sense of community. In the decades that followed, not only did Juliette witness the city’s transition from Indian country to industrial center, but she was instrumental in its development. Juliette is one of Chicago’s forgotten founders. Early Chicago is often presented as “a man’s city,” but women like Juliette worked to create an urban and urbane world, often within their own parlors. With The World of Juliette Kinzie, we finally get to experience the rise of Chicago from the view of one of its most important founding mothers. Ann Durkin Keating, one of the foremost experts on nineteenth-century Chicago, offers a moving portrait of a trailblazing and complicated woman. Keating takes us to the corner of Cass and Michigan (now Wabash and Hubbard), Juliette’s home base. Through Juliette’s eyes, our understanding of early Chicago expands from a city of boosters and speculators to include the world that women created in and between households. We see the development of Chicago society, first inspired by cities in the East and later coming into its own midwestern ways. We also see the city become a community, as it developed its intertwined religious, social, educational, and cultural institutions. Keating draws on a wealth of sources, including hundreds of Juliette’s personal letters, allowing Juliette to tell much of her story in her own words. Juliette’s death in 1870, just a year before the infamous fire, seemed almost prescient. She left her beloved Chicago right before the physical city as she knew it vanished in flames. But now her history lives on. The World of Juliette Kinzie offers a new perspective on Chicago’s past and is a fitting tribute to one of the first women historians in the United States.

Book House documents

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  • Release : 1878
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 794 pages

Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Presbyterian Magazine

Download or read book Presbyterian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Artisan

Download or read book American Artisan written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Insurance Year Book

Download or read book The Insurance Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Register of the United States

Download or read book Official Register of the United States written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dairy Record

Download or read book Dairy Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: