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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.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1979] c1954.Description: xviii, 550 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0803265514
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 978/.02
LOC classification:
  • F591 .D54 1979
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks F591.D54 1979 1 Available 33710000219415

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.