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Red earth : race and agriculture in Oklahoma Territory / Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynn-Sherow, Bonnie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oklahoma--Race relations.
- Oklahoma.
- Oklahoma--Environmental conditions.
- Oklahoma--Social conditions.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Oklahoma.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Agriculture--Social aspects--Oklahoma--History.
- Agriculture.
- Land use--Social aspects--Oklahoma--History.
- Land use.
- African American farmers--Oklahoma--History.
- African American farmers.
- Indians of North America--Agriculture--Oklahoma--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Human ecology--Oklahoma.
- Human ecology.
- Agriculture--Social aspects.
- Ecology.
- Indians of North America--Agriculture.
- Land use--Social aspects.
- Race relations.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2004]
- System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- Summary:
- "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."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The prairie
- The promise
- The black frontier
- Blaine County beginnings
- Land rush
- Rainy Mountain : Kiowas and the land before allotment
- Owners and tenants : Kiowa farming after allotment
- Conclusion : ordering the elements.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2023.
- Finalist: Oklahoma Book Award
- Print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lynn-Sherow, Bonnie. Red earth
- ISBN:
- 9780700641642
- 0700641645
- 9780700641659
- 0700641653
- OCLC:
- 1416246446
- Publisher Number:
- heb40579 hdl
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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