Lecture 7: The Farmer Is the Man
Statement of purpose
Outline of
Lecture
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Introduction: Farm
Boy Historian
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Ecology and
Agrarianism
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Agriculture is a loaded question. On the Great Plains, discussion
of agriculture takes place in the context of ideas about ecology and
conservation. This discussion, too, is layered onto an older, more
generally American discourse having to do with family farming and the
virtues of an agrarian society.
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Transforming
the Land
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Synopsis
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I Love to Tell
the Story
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Synopsis
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Roads Not
Taken
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Synopsis
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Fixing
Problems
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Synopsis
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Redevelopment
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Synopsis
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Assignments
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WWW
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TBA
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Reading
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Thinking About the
Great Plains
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Sandoz, Mari. “The Kinkaider
Comes and Goes: Memories of an Adventurous Childhood in the Sandhills of Nebraska,”
North American Review 229 (April
1930): 431-42, (May 1930): 576-83.
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The Great Plains
at the Grassroots
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Immigrants'
Guide to the Most Fertile Lands of Kansas, ca. 1880
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A
Handbook of Information for Immigrants and Settlers
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Homestead
Act, 1862
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Homestead
File for Charles Ingalls, 1880-86
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George
Anthony, Grasshoppers Received Correspondence, 1877-79
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Selected Bibliography
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Fite, The Farmer’s Frontier
Isern, Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs
Cunfer, On the Great Plains
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Film
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O Pioneers!
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HIST 431 Home Page
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