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"This Must Have Been A Grand Sight": George Bent And The Battle Of Platte Bridge, Steven C. Haack
"This Must Have Been A Grand Sight": George Bent And The Battle Of Platte Bridge, Steven C. Haack
Great Plains Quarterly
The Battle of Platte Bridge, July 26, 1865, is a noteworthy event in the annals of the American Indian Wars. An alliance of Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapahoe, numbering in excess of 2,000 warriors, traveled three days to a specific military objective, an undertaking unusual both in terms of its magnitude and its level of organization. The battle is also of interest because we have a detailed description of the event written from the Native American viewpoint. This description comes in the form of a number of letters written to George Hyde by Southern Cheyenne George Bent. George Bent, son of …
A Soil Water Climatology For Kansas, Michael J. Keables, Shitij Mehta
A Soil Water Climatology For Kansas, Michael J. Keables, Shitij Mehta
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Regional climate models suggest that summers in the Great Plains may become increasingly dry during this century, raising concern about the availability of water resources for irrigation and municipal water supplies. While the models predict drier conditions across the region, the impact of climate change on water availability at the local scale will depend largely upon the soils and their ability to store water during dry periods. This study presents a soil water climatology for Kansas using a climatic water balance approach. Monthly observations of temperature and precipitation for the period 1950–2006 are used to calculate climatologies of actual evapotranspiration, …