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Grasslands grown : creating place on the U.S. northern plains and Canadian prairies / Molly P. Rozum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rozum, Molly Patrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regionalism--Great Plains.
- Regionalism.
- Colonists--Great Plains--Social life and customs.
- Colonists.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Great Plains.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Human ecology--Great Plains.
- Human ecology.
- Cultural geography--Great Plains.
- Cultural geography.
- Grasslands--United States.
- Grasslands.
- Grasslands--Canada.
- Environmental conditions.
- Civilization.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Plains--Civilization--19th century.
- Great Plains.
- Great Plains--Environmental conditions--19th century.
- Canada.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Looking northwest from La Vérendrye Hill
- Parents' choice : taking root on the northern grasslands
- Small worlds : animal friends, foes, and place rhythms
- Sensing grasses, grains, waters, woods, rocks, and snow
- "The purple hills beckoned" : growing up, travel, education, and region
- "Old woman who never dies" and "old man's garden" : settler and indigenous relations over the generations
- "All is so still-so big, I scarce can speak" : new literature and settler society aesthetics
- "Surely grass is the great mother of all plains agriculture" : agricultural adaptation and grasslands conservation
- "All that vast region of grass land" : the United States, Canada, and changing cultural geography
- Conclusion: Looking across the line from the prairies and plains.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781496227973
- 1496227972
- 9781496227966
- 1496227964
- Publisher Number:
- 99988151354
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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