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Cattle, Environment, And Economic Change: A History Of Cherry County, Nebraska’S Cattle Industry, From Earliest Times To 1940, Gail Lorna Didonato Nov 1998

Cattle, Environment, And Economic Change: A History Of Cherry County, Nebraska’S Cattle Industry, From Earliest Times To 1940, Gail Lorna Didonato

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A modern cattle industry in Cherry County, Nebraska, developed as challenges of land use and pressures of economic change demanded new and flexible adaptation to the unique environment. Located in the Sandhills, a region only opened to legal white settlement after Indian removal in 1878, the area passed through phases of occupation. Open-range cattlemen drawn by lucrative local markets gave way to struggles over land use between farmers and ranchers. Early twentieth century legislation, the 1904 Kinkaid Act, designed to promote farm settlement, in the end, benefited ranchers the most. As the wedge to gain legal access to land ownership, …


Book Reviews Oct 1998

Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs Sep 1998

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news:

  • Mayo, Travis. A Crushing Defeat – Football
  • Stamper, John. Fatal Fire Sparking Changes – Murray State University, Housing & Residence Life
  • Karen, Mattias. Insurance Costs Could Drop for Faculty – Employee Benefits
  • Harper, Molly. Report Expresses Concern About Campus Dark Spots – Lighting
  • New Classes Need Funding – Budget, Curriculum
  • Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon More Classes
  • Mead, Ann. Reserved Spots Open After 5 – Parking
  • Wilson, Liz. Take Bake the Night Succeeds – Poetry
  • How Would You Rate Your Computer Skills?
  • Lynn, Kelley. Talent Show Draws All Kinds
  • Englert, …


The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies Aug 1998

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

Volume 8, Number 4 . I Fall 1998 NEWSLETTER The Muir Renaissance in Scotl by Graham White (Editor's note: A leading voice in the Scottish effort to wkdiscover John Muir, Graham White wrote the introduction to the Canongate collection of Muir's wilderness essays, and is completing a second volume of Muir Writings for that publisher. He can be reached at Brox- mouth Gardens, Dunbar, Scotland EH42 Iqw, or by e-mail at 101320.5 [email protected].) W. he John Muir Newsletter has invited me to outline the resurgence of interest in John Muir in the land of his birth, and to clarify various …


The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies Jun 1998

The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

John Muir On Mount Ritter: A New Wilderness Aesthetic by Philip G. Terrie (Editor's note: Philip G. Terrie is Professor of English and f American Studies at Bowling Green State University, and author •f Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack wporest Preserve (1985). This article first appeared in The Pacific Historian (1987), and is reproduced here by permission.) hile John Muir has been the subject of considerable scholarly scrutiny in recent years, we have yet to arrive at a complete understanding of his response to nature.1 One on is that we are often too eager to portray him as …


Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar May 1998

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program listing graduates.


Difficulties In Diplomacy: A Case Study Of Relations Between The United States And The Republic Of Congo, 1960-1965, James R. Hawn Jr. Apr 1998

Difficulties In Diplomacy: A Case Study Of Relations Between The United States And The Republic Of Congo, 1960-1965, James R. Hawn Jr.

History Theses & Dissertations

As he took office, President John F. Kennedy articulated new policies sympathetic to African independence movements, but his policies turned out to be conditional. Aid continued to be granted to resource rich, pro-Western governments.

When the Republic of Congo gamed its independence, it retained its pro-Western cultural and economic ties with its former colonial power, France. Lacking natural resources and an industrial base, this country sought large amounts of economic aid from the West to sustain itself. France and the United States failed to live up to the Congo's expectations. Accusations of massive corruption sealed the fate of the government …


The Grizzly, March 24, 1998, Melinda Albert, Maryann Moscariello, Maria Degracia, Katrina Milton, Justin Harrison, Stephanie Restine, Jacqueline Colvin, Lou Nemphos, Joseph Catalfano, Richard Neal, Michael Bauer, Jennifer Heil Mar 1998

The Grizzly, March 24, 1998, Melinda Albert, Maryann Moscariello, Maria Degracia, Katrina Milton, Justin Harrison, Stephanie Restine, Jacqueline Colvin, Lou Nemphos, Joseph Catalfano, Richard Neal, Michael Bauer, Jennifer Heil

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Several Students Opt for Alternative Spring Break • Doughty's Text Book Published • The Role of Security on Campus • Jerry Springer and the Modern Day Freak Show • Baseball Goes 7-3 Over Spring Break • Women's Lacrosse Gets Tune Up in Florida • Tennis Team Loses Opener at Albright • Men's Lax Plays at Corestates • Vonnie Gros, Ursinus Legend Retires • Women's Lax Settles for Tie Against Rowan • Baseball Wins Home Opener • Track & Field


"Introduction" To European Immigrants In The American West: Community Histories, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1998

"Introduction" To European Immigrants In The American West: Community Histories, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

European immigrants are the forgotten people of the American West. Their stories are not told in the many books, paintings, and movies that have created the mythic West. Immigrants did not easily fit the image of the West as the bastion of unfettered individualism and self-reliance-a region peopled by the free, brave, and pure-battling against the urbanized, industrialized, a,nd economically dominant East. Nor do European immigrants populate the pages of frontier history. Ever since Frederick Jackson Turner opened the field a hundred years ago, general histories of the American frontier have tended to ignore them. Grounded on the Turnerian notion …


Reconstruction Of The Part Vegetation On The Headwaters Of The Piney Creek Watershed In Houston And Trinity Counties, Texas, Velicia R. Hubbard, David H. Jurney Jan 1998

Reconstruction Of The Part Vegetation On The Headwaters Of The Piney Creek Watershed In Houston And Trinity Counties, Texas, Velicia R. Hubbard, David H. Jurney

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The National Forests and Grasslands of Texas began a project in 1994 for ecosystem management involving multiple disciplines in an holistic approach to resource inventories. We first began with an intensive archival study of the forest acquisition files and the General Land Office (GLO) files in an effort to identify the western limits of the longleaf pine at the time of initial Anglo-American settlement ca. 1850. Vegetation information was gleaned from this work along with an understanding of the historical occupation of the area, aided by plotting this information onto USGS 7.5' maps overlain by the historic Tobin landownership maps. …


Wilson-Leonard An 11,000-Year Archeological Record Of Hunter-Gatherers In Central Texas Volume I: Introduction, Background, And Syntheses, Michael B. Collins, Gail L. Bailey, C. Britt Bousman, Susan W. Dial, Paul Goldberg, Jan Guy, Vance T. Holliday, C. E. Mear, Paul R. Takac Jan 1998

Wilson-Leonard An 11,000-Year Archeological Record Of Hunter-Gatherers In Central Texas Volume I: Introduction, Background, And Syntheses, Michael B. Collins, Gail L. Bailey, C. Britt Bousman, Susan W. Dial, Paul Goldberg, Jan Guy, Vance T. Holliday, C. E. Mear, Paul R. Takac

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Study of the archeology of the Wilson-Leonard site has opened broad new vistas for the reexamination and improved interpretation of regional prehistory. Beyond that, it is of national importance in terms of both data and interpretation (for example, on the Paleoindian era) and the concepts used in its excavation and analysis. It is unique in other ways. In most cases, deep, stratified, multicomponent sites of this integrity are rarely excavated (in Texas, at least) more than once and the potential for long-term research is not fully met. As the reader will learn, Wilson-Leonard was first excavated on a large scale …


God's Designs: The Literature Of The Colonial Revival Of Religion, 1735-1760, Allen C. Guelzo Jan 1998

God's Designs: The Literature Of The Colonial Revival Of Religion, 1735-1760, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

In December of 1990, after the completion of a section on Jonathan Edwards at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City, a dozen or so of mostly younger scholars of Jonathan Edwards swept around the corner from the convention hotel and settled themselves down to a staggering repast at a posh north Italian restaurant. In the midst of some very un-Edwardsean consumption, I offered a question to everyone around the table: What is the most important book which you've ever read on the Great Awakening? With only one exception, the Young Edwardseans gave the palm …


Rancho Rosa De Castilla: Hispanic Continuity In Greater East Los Angeles, John R. Chávez Jan 1998

Rancho Rosa De Castilla: Hispanic Continuity In Greater East Los Angeles, John R. Chávez

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


20th Century Rhetorical Influences On United States-Mexico Relations, A. Gene Wendorf Jan 1998

20th Century Rhetorical Influences On United States-Mexico Relations, A. Gene Wendorf

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The thesis documents the important influences that have shaped Mexican-American relations in the late 19th century and in the 20th century. These influences uncover areas that go over and beyond the conventional schools of diplomacy. They include a whole myriad of forces. The thread of our relations is found to be based largely on self determination made by each Presidential administration.

It is demonstrated that many Presidents have acted as their own statesmen in regard to Mexico. In searching for influences the researcher finds culture, language, technology, politics, economics, history, geography and religion as relevant. The nature of United States …


Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar Dec 1997

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program listing graduates.


The National German-American Alliance, 1901 -1918: Cultural Politics And Ethnicity In Peace And War, Charles Thomas Johnson Dec 1997

The National German-American Alliance, 1901 -1918: Cultural Politics And Ethnicity In Peace And War, Charles Thomas Johnson

Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to tell the story of the National German- American Alliance, an organization of middle to upper-middle class well-educated professionals formed in 1901 to promote and preserve aspects of German culture in the United States. Increasingly, however, it found itself drawn into controversial political and diplomatic issues in the rapid political, social and international change that marked the first two decades of the twentieth century.

The dissertation begins with a review of German-America from colonial times to 1899 and serves as a background for the founding of the Alliance within the context of the growth …


The Censoring Of Lorenzo Sherwood: The Politics Of Railroads, Slavery And Southernism In Antebellum Texas, John Moretta Oct 1997

The Censoring Of Lorenzo Sherwood: The Politics Of Railroads, Slavery And Southernism In Antebellum Texas, John Moretta

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.


John Patrick Mcgregor Interview, John Patrick Mcgregor, John Ernst Jul 1997

John Patrick Mcgregor Interview, John Patrick Mcgregor, John Ernst

Vietnam War Oral History Collection

Transcript of an oral history interview with John Patrick McGregor by John Ernst on his experiences during the Vietnam War on July 9, 1997.


Celebrating The Portuguese Communities In America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide), Library Of Congress And The Embassy Of Portugal Jun 1997

Celebrating The Portuguese Communities In America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide), Library Of Congress And The Embassy Of Portugal

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective.

June 10 - November 29, 1997

Although numerous countries and individuals were involved in the exploration and mapping of the Americas, it was the Portuguese who set the stage during the fifteenth century for the ensuing discoveries in the New World. Portuguese-born and sponsored explorers played a significant role, especially in charting a route around the southern tip of South America; in exploring and exploiting the waters bordering the northeast coast of North America; and in exploring the Pacific Coast of North America, particularly the area that today is the state …


Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar May 1997

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program listing graduates.


An Heir Or A Rebel? Charles Grandison Finney And The New England Theology, Allen C. Guelzo Apr 1997

An Heir Or A Rebel? Charles Grandison Finney And The New England Theology, Allen C. Guelzo

History Faculty Publications

Examines the contributions of Charles Grandison Finney to mid-nineteenth century theology. Finney's rejection of Calvinism; Critiques on Finney's theology by interpreters including William McLoughlin; Reference to the book `Memoirs'; Finney's perverse admiration of Jonathan Edwards; Development of the doctrine of perfection.


Building A Battle Site: Roads To And Through Gettysburg, Elwood W. Christ Jan 1997

Building A Battle Site: Roads To And Through Gettysburg, Elwood W. Christ

Adams County History

On the morning of 1 July 1863, lead elements of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia advanced on the town of Gettysburg situated in the lush farm lands of south-central Pennsylvania just eight miles east of the South Mountain in Adams county. The Southern reconnaissance in force made early that summer morning was destined not only to change the history of the struggling Confederacy, but also to set the infant United States republic, indeed the world, on courses towards more democratic forms of government.

Although many historians have dwelled on those three fateful days in 1863, few …


Archaeological Testing At Crook's Park In San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, Diane A. Cargill, Maureen Brown Jan 1997

Archaeological Testing At Crook's Park In San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, Diane A. Cargill, Maureen Brown

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Archaeological testing at site 41HY261 was conducted from March 26-31, 1997, by the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) of The University of Texas at San Antonio, for the city of San Marcos Parks and Recreation Department. Testing demonstrates that 41HY261 contains deep, intact, stratified subsurface cultural deposits. Collectively, the artifacts recovered to date represent ca. 5,000 years of hunter-and-gatherer activity. Site 41HY261 has the potential to contribute significantly to the prehistory of the region, and is therefore recommended as eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.


Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 1997-1998, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1997

Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 1997-1998, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog

The Kentucky Humanities Council is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities committed to providing programs and services that facilitate an understanding and appreciation of Kentucky’s cultural heritage and future. The Council’s program catalog features scholars from across the Commonwealth who make presentations on a myriad of humanities topics. Later, costumed actors, who delivered dramatic monologues about Kentucky’s famous, infamous, and composite personalities, were added. The catalog has gone by various titles over the years: Kentucky Humanities Resource Center, Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, Whole Humanities Catalog, and Humanities Catalog. This …


Book Reviews Jan 1997

Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.


Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar Dec 1996

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program listing graduates.


Duncan Hines The Man Behind The Cake Mix, Louis Hatchett Dec 1996

Duncan Hines The Man Behind The Cake Mix, Louis Hatchett

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

To many Americans Duncan Hines (1880-1959) is just a name on a cake mix package. Few would suspect that in the 1940s and 1950s Duncan Hines was the most trusted name in the food industry. In the early twentieth century Hines was a traveling salesman of printing wares who was keenly interested in discovering safe places to eat during the course of his business excursions. He eventually became well-known among the public for his specialized knowledge of the locations of superior dining facilities. In 1936 he began publishing this information annually in a restaurant guide. By the end of the …


African American Librarians In Kentucky, Reinette F. Jones Oct 1996

African American Librarians In Kentucky, Reinette F. Jones

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Kentucky was the first North American state to establish a free public library exclusively for African Americans. The library, located in Louisville, Kentucky, was managed by Thomas Fountain Blue, the first African American to manage a public library. The establishing of the Colored Library and Thomas Fountain Blue's Apprentice Training Program was the beginning of librarianship and libraries for African Americans in Kentucky.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs Sep 1996

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Regular features include:

  • Just a Second
  • Campus Line
  • For the Record / Crime Reports
  • People Poll
  • Sports
  • Diversions
  • Movie Reviews
  • Classifieds

Articles in this issue:

  • Hall, Jason. Electronic Chip to Track Runners – 10K Classic
  • Lucas, Fred. ACT Scores Rising
  • LaBelle, Charboneé. Awareness of Homosexuals Increasing in Society
  • Monarch Environmental Leaves Western Looking Trashy
  • Robinson, George. Get the Facts Before Claiming Party – Politics
  • Leonard, Kim. We Must Answer to a Higher Authority
  • Simmons, Darryn. Louis Farrakhan Has Right to Freedoms
  • Back, Shannon. Line Dancing: Country Style Boot Scootin’ …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs Sep 1996

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Regular features include:

  • Just a Second
  • Campus Line
  • For the Record / Crime Reports
  • People Poll
  • Sports
  • Diversions
  • Movie Reviews
  • Classifieds

Articles in this issue:

  • Stamper, John. Carjacker Suspect Wanted in Two States – Steven Woolbright
  • LaBelle, Charboneé. Kentucky Legislators in Favor of Bill – Same-sex Marriage
  • Baker, Emily. Pain: Students Learn to Shape Lives Around Migraines
  • Crime Strikes Close to Home
  • Knaul, Krista. Congress Followed Will of Majority
  • Camplin, Troy. Ms. Flanagan Ignorant
  • Simmons, Darryn. Rapper’s Death Brings Lesson to All
  • Lega, Stephen. Bill of Rights Update Needed …