Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication written by Angus Henry McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Erosion and Its Control in Oklahoma Territory written by Angus Henry McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous Trees written by Charles Edgar Randall and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees by their very nature are landmarks and memorials. They are therefore identified with human happenings. Trees also have more than the allotted life span of man and carry their association through generations of men and women. Thus they often figure not only in biography but also in history.

Download or read book Red Earth written by Bonnie Lynn-Sherow and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book History of Kentucky written by William Elsey Connelley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A STANDARD HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA written by JOSEPH B THOBURN and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Oklahoma Tragedy written by Shirley Chandler Anderson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 1939 true story about a seventy-three-year-old Navina, Oklahoma, widowed farmer who was missing when his married daughter and her husband came to his house to fix Sunday dinner, as had been arranged the day before. The sheriff is called who starts questioning local neighbors about the missing farmer to find out when he was last seen or if anything suspicious had been seen in the area. The entire Navina farming community came together for two days to hunt for the farmer and to determine what had happened to him. The actual town of Navinas business buildings no longer exist, which the book includes several pictures of those buildings during the time before the town of Navina became nonexistent in the 1940s.

Download or read book A Standard History of Oklahoma written by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother written by Ned Harold Benson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April 1638 on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fired on Fort Sumter, and served until the end of the War of Rebellion, being mustered out on 22 June 1865. He then returned to Kansas where he prospered, married, and fathered 5 children. He lost all his worldly possessions due to drought and the economic collapse following The Panic of 1873, and then moved about Kansas seeking a new start. During this difficult period, his wife died, leaving him a widower with 4 children ages 6 to 11. He soon married a divorcee who brought her 3 children, ages 1 to 3, to the marriage. In his second marriage, John Lewis fathered three more children. After the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory were opened for settlement in 1899, John Lewis and his blended family moved there and share-cropped 40 acres southeast of Guthrie, Oklahoma, which he eventually bought. He died on this farm on 23 March 1906. This book by one of his great-grandsons tells the story of his life, the lives of his five sisters and one brother, and their ancestry back to 16th century Oxfordshire, England.

Download or read book Report of the Department of the Interior with Accompanying Documents written by United States. Dept. of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Bar written by James Clark Fifield and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soil Survey Alfalfa County Oklahoma written by Alwin William Goke and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.). College Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Governor of Oklahoma to the Secretary of the Interior written by Oklahoma. Governor and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Logan County Illinois written by Lawrence Beaumont Stringer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agriculture written by United States. Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Biographical Record of Jasper County Missouri written by Malcolm G. McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: