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Mcmurtry, Horace (Sc 2575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcmurtry, Horace (Sc 2575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2575. Paper titled: “Warren County, Kentucky,” written by Horace McMurtry. This paper discusses the geography, history, agriculture, and social life and customs of Warren County.
Dinning, J. Donald (Sc 2573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dinning, J. Donald (Sc 2573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2573. Paper titled “Brief History of Franklin and Simpson County, Kentucky” written by J. Donald Dinning, Lexington, Kentucky, in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Kentucky. Dinning’s paper discusses the creation of the two counties, early settlement and agriculture.
Smith, Leslie Shively, 1908-1997 (Sc 2568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Leslie Shively, 1908-1997 (Sc 2568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2568. Paper titled “An Abridged History of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky,” written by Leslie Shively Smith on 12 July 1962. This paper was written for a history class at Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Royalty, John Miles, 1862-1939 (Sc 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Royalty, John Miles, 1862-1939 (Sc 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 597. Letters to John M. Royalty of Willisburg, Washington County, Kentucky, 1886-1928 (5); Washington County tax receipts, 1909-1938 (21); dog licenses, 1919-1927 (5); The Knights of the Maccabees of the World receipts, 1909-1912 (5); and miscellaneous items.
Coveted Lands: Agriculture, Timber, Mining, And Transportation In Cherokee Country Before And After Removal, Vicki Bell Rozema
Coveted Lands: Agriculture, Timber, Mining, And Transportation In Cherokee Country Before And After Removal, Vicki Bell Rozema
Doctoral Dissertations
Covering a period from approximately 1779 to 1850, this dissertation studies natural resources and land use in Cherokee country before and after forced Cherokee removal from east of the Mississippi. As the market economy in the South grew in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Euro-Americans perceived the Cherokee Nation as an obstacle to commercial transportation and economic expansion. Southern leaders such as John C. Calhoun and Wilson Lumpkin planned to build canals and railroads through the Cherokee Nation. Disputes over saltpeter, gold, salt, and iron mining rights and the ownership of ferries, taverns, and turnpikes caused conflict. The …
Not Your Family Farm Apiculture In South,Central Montana, Miles Lewis
Not Your Family Farm Apiculture In South,Central Montana, Miles Lewis
Great Plains Quarterly
The rolling prairies and sheltering mountain ranges of the Upper Musselshell Valley in Montana are nearly perfect for cattle and sheep grazing. Some areas, more topographically similar to the Great Plains than to the mountainous West, are (at least in wet years) highly conducive to growing alfalfa or wheat. Overall, the pastoral setting calls to mind images of weathered cowboys, grizzled sheepherders, and stoic farmers. However, closer inquiry into the region's agriculture reveals that cattle and wheat are by no means the only product being harvested from the land. Found buzzing around flowering foliage or swarming the rearing hindquarters of …