The sod-house frontier, 1854-1890 : a social history of the northern plains from the creation of Kansas & Nebraska to the admission of the Dakotas / by Everett Dick.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1979] c1954.Description: xviii, 550 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0803265514
- 978/.02
- F591 .D54 1979
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Reprint of the ed.published by Appleton-Century Co., New York.
"A Bison book."
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 519-528.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Westward ho! -- Preemption days -- Town-building mania -- The river cities of the fifties -- Log-cabin days -- Pioneer finance -- Road ranches -- The sod house -- Homesteading -- Vigilante days -- The homesteader-cattleman war -- Hunting and trapping -- Whites and Indians -- Colonies and colonizing agencies -- Nature frowns on mankind -- Women and children on the frontier -- Homesteader days and ways -- Fuel and water -- Food and clothes -- Sports -- Beginning of machine farming -- The grange -- Readin' an' 'ritin' an' 'rithmetic -- The church and the frontier -- The coming of the iron horse -- Pleasure and play -- The prairie town -- Along main street -- The pioneer newspaper -- The pioneer doctor -- Lawyers and legal proceedings -- Turbulent days in county affairs -- Itinerants -- Pioneer industries -- Crude frontier customs.