Portrays the same heartrending devastation, sorrow, and quiet heroism of the Depression that Steinbeck depicted in Grapes of Wrath and that Woody Guthrie evoked in his songs of the common people. This is the author's record of the shocking plight of millions of unemployed and dispossessed Americans.
Portrays the same heartrending devastation, sorrow, and quiet heroism of the Depression that Steinbeck depicted in Grapes of Wrath and that Woody Guth...
Thomas J. Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933, fought throughout his long career against corruption and monopoly power. His most celebrated coup was breaking open the Teapot Dome scandal of 1923 -- 24, revealing that the secretary of the interior had accepted loans from oil men in return for leases of U.S. naval oil reserves.
Thomas J. Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933, fought throughout his long career against corruption and monopoly power. His most ...
The authors examine how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight of his tribe, and of tribespeople across America, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement.
The authors examine how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, broug...
"The senator s own account of his service to Oklahoma and the nation through depression and war"
Elmer Thomas (18761965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state s first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped shape the development of the state and the course of American history.
Thomas became one of Oklahoma s first state senators in 1907 and was involved with financing the construction of public...
"The senator s own account of his service to Oklahoma and the nation through depression and war"
Elmer Thomas (18761965) represented the people o...
To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in equal measure. Comprising land that Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico did not want, and that Texas, after entering the Union as a slave state, could not have, the Oklahoma Panhandle was dubbed No Man s Land. This geographical anomaly, 165 miles long and only 35 miles wide, belonged to no one and, before statehood, served as a haven for desperadoes and villains. Only with the creation of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890 was the area finally claimed...
To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in ...
When Henry A. Wallace had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour "on the trail of the Corn Belt Farmer." Wallace's articles, collected and reprinted here for the first time, are lively descriptions of up-and-coming western locales such as Amarillo, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; the orange groves of southern California;the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys; and the Greeley District of Colorado. Wallace made a specialty of down-home conversation with farming families and of cross-examining the real-estate agents who profited from the...
When Henry A. Wallace had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour "on the trail of the Corn Bel...
This valuable survey of the impact of New Deal agencies and programs focuses on the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and Great Basin, the Pacific Northwest, and California during the period from 1932 to 1940.
This valuable survey of the impact of New Deal agencies and programs focuses on the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and Great Basin, the Pacific No...
Few writers have written as thoughtfully and extensively on Oklahoma politics and culture as Richard Lowitt. His work of the past six decades moves with ease among historical topics as various as agriculture, health, industry, labor, and the environment, offering an informed and enlightened perspective. Collected for the first time in one volume, Lowitt's articles on post-World War II Oklahoma and notable Oklahomans reveal a remarkable range of the state's political, environmental, agricultural, civil rights, and Native American history in the Cold War era.
Nowhere else,...
Few writers have written as thoughtfully and extensively on Oklahoma politics and culture as Richard Lowitt. His work of the past six decades m...