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Review Of Lakota And Cheyenne: Indian Views Of The Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 By Jerome A. Greene, William Bridges Aug 1995

Review Of Lakota And Cheyenne: Indian Views Of The Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 By Jerome A. Greene, William Bridges

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In 1874 and 1875, whites, lured by the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, poured into the northern Plains and encountered the indigenous Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, remembered by most Americans for Custer's Last Stand in June 1876, sprang from this contact. While Custer and over two hundred of his men lost their lives at the Battle of Little Big Horn, the Cheyenne and Sioux lost far more. By shattering the largest unified resistance to white incursions into Indian territory, the Great Sioux War went a long way to assuring whites supremacy …

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Review Of Skeletal Biology In The Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health And Subsistence By Douglas W. Owsley And Richard L. Jantz, Luann Wandsnider Aug 1995

Review Of Skeletal Biology In The Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health And Subsistence By Douglas W. Owsley And Richard L. Jantz, Luann Wandsnider

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This volume reports the results of studies on skeletal remains throughout the Great Plains from early to recent times. Skeletons from the W. H. Over Museum Collection in South Dakota, excavated by Over, William Bass, and W. R. Hurt, form the volume's analytic core, with other collections providing necessary context. Portions of the Over skeletal collection have been reported on previously. When the collection was mandated for reburial in 1985, however, Owsley and Jantz arranged for comprehensive osteological analysis by numerous specialists, resulting in this volume.

Thirty-two chapters by 39 authors are offered on the topics of Great Plains disease …

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Review Of Accidental Archaeologist: Memoirs Of Jesse D. Jennings By Jesse D. Jennings, Ralph J. Hartley Aug 1995

Review Of Accidental Archaeologist: Memoirs Of Jesse D. Jennings By Jesse D. Jennings, Ralph J. Hartley

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The history of twentieth-century archaeology as told by its early practitioners is finding an appreciative audience in a generation of anthropological archaeologists that has matured under the regulatory eye of federal environmental protective legislation. This book is the story of the life of one of the discipline's foremost practitioners. Although autobiographical in its organization, many of the book's chapters can be read as stand-alone accounts of Jesse Jennings's reflections on conducting archaeological investigations in the southeast, Plains, and desert west of North America, as well as in Polynesia and Guatemala.

A man who considers himself to have been "a minority …

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Review Of Apache Mothers And Daughters: Four Generations Of A Family By Ruth Mcdonald Boyer And Narcissus Duffy Gayton, Beth Ritter Aug 1995

Review Of Apache Mothers And Daughters: Four Generations Of A Family By Ruth Mcdonald Boyer And Narcissus Duffy Gayton, Beth Ritter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Apache Mothers and Daughters is the narrative saga of four generations of Chiricahua Apache mothers and daughters. Against a poignant background of Chiricahua raiding and warfare, imprisonment, relocation, reservation confinement, and forced acculturation, this intensely personal history of four remarkable women's lives unfolds. The book's strength lies in its masterful weaving of solid ethnohistoric research with the oral history provided by Narcissus Duffy Gayton (and other informants) about herself, her mother Christine Kozine, her grandmother Beshad-e, and her great grandmother Dilth-c1eyhen.

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River Protection In Texas: Up A Creek Without A Policy, Michelle S. Pettit, F. Andrew Schoolmaster Aug 1995

River Protection In Texas: Up A Creek Without A Policy, Michelle S. Pettit, F. Andrew Schoolmaster

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Federal river protection in the us. began in 1968 with passage of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (P.L. 90-542). In addition to the federal system, 33 states have enacted some type of state-level river protection legislation. Currently, over 400 river segments and 15,000 river miles are protected by the state programs. Texas, which contains 23 major river basins and over 80,000 linear miles of streambed, has made numerous attempts to establish a state-level protection program; however, each has failed. With a growing population of more than 17.6 million, competition for water resources will intensify, including demands for various …

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Annual Index - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995 Aug 1995

Annual Index - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Annual index

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News And Notes - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995 Aug 1995

News And Notes - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents: Calls for papers

Conferences

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Review Of Apache Mothers And Daughters: Four Generations Of A Family By Ruth Mcdonald Boyer And Narcissus Duffy Gayton, Beth Ritter Aug 1995

Review Of Apache Mothers And Daughters: Four Generations Of A Family By Ruth Mcdonald Boyer And Narcissus Duffy Gayton, Beth Ritter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Apache Mothers and Daughters is the narrative saga of four generations of Chiricahua Apache mothers and daughters. Against a poignant background of Chiricahua raiding and warfare, imprisonment, relocation, reservation confinement, and forced acculturation, this intensely personal history of four remarkable women's lives unfolds. The book's strength lies in its masterful weaving of solid ethnohistoric research with the oral history provided by Narcissus Duffy Gayton (and other informants) about herself, her mother Christine Kozine, her grandmother Beshad-e, and her great grandmother Dilth-cleyhen.

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Review Of Braid Of Feathers: American Indian Law And Contemporary Tribal Life By Frank Pommersheim, Erin Hogan Fouberg Aug 1995

Review Of Braid Of Feathers: American Indian Law And Contemporary Tribal Life By Frank Pommersheim, Erin Hogan Fouberg

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The goal of Indian termination policy in the 1950s was to eliminate the reservations and thus eradicate the "Indian problem." Frank Pommersheim, professor of law at the University of South Dakota and member of the appellate court for the Cheyenne River and Rosebud Sioux tribes, convincingly argues that eliminating reservations would be disastrous for Indian tribes in the west. The establishment of reservations guaranteed tribes a measured separatism; today, they are the only places where tribes and their cultures are likely to survive. The author examines the portions ofthe United States legally designated Indian country and finds that Indian land …

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What Kind Of Woman Would Work In Meatpacking, Anyway? World War Ii And The Road To Fair Employment, Deborah Fink Aug 1995

What Kind Of Woman Would Work In Meatpacking, Anyway? World War Ii And The Road To Fair Employment, Deborah Fink

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

World War II accelerated the movement of rural and small town Iowa women into manufacturing industry. Scholars have debated the significance of World War II for gender relations, but the recent consensus is that only focused studies of particular localities can address the complexity of the changes effected by the War. This study looks at Iowa women in meatpacking plants. Assessing the economic background, their prior efforts to enter packing plants, and the resistance they met in the plants makes their limited gains understandable. Women of rural and small town wage earning households had always been workers, usually in the …

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Secondary School Curriculum Change In Rural Nebraska, Erwin Goldenstein, L. James Walter Aug 1995

Secondary School Curriculum Change In Rural Nebraska, Erwin Goldenstein, L. James Walter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Critics of education in the United States asserted that high school students' performance fell after 1960. The decline has been linked to high school curricula which lost academic rigor in comparison to high school curricula in earlier decades. This study investigates the curricula of selected high schools in Nebraska, using random samples of graduating seniors taken every 10 years from 1953 to 1983. Findings show that the proportions of students' programs devoted to more demanding English, social sciences, mathematics, business, and natural science courses diminished during the study period. Grade inflation was observed in smaller public schools, but not in …

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Review Of This Fragile Land: A Natural History Of The Nebraska Sandhills By Paul A. Johnsgard, Paul G. Risser Aug 1995

Review Of This Fragile Land: A Natural History Of The Nebraska Sandhills By Paul A. Johnsgard, Paul G. Risser

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Books like this are rarely written. Today, most writings about natural features and charismatic landscapes tend to be of two types: those with subjective, generalized descriptions written for the layperson, or technical articles with great detail but little in the way of human emotion. This book, written by a professor who spent fifteen summers in the Nebraska Sandhills, presents sufficient technical detail to satisfy the professional, but at the same time conveys the images and emotions of the Sandhills plants, animals, and people.

About 50,000 square kilometers-one-fourth of Nebraska-are covered by the Sandhills, making this the largest area of sand …

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Letters To The Editor - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995 Aug 1995

Letters To The Editor - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

letters

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Nebraska Quilts, 1870-1989: Perspectives On Traditions And Change, Patricia Cox Crews, Wendelin Rich Aug 1995

Nebraska Quilts, 1870-1989: Perspectives On Traditions And Change, Patricia Cox Crews, Wendelin Rich

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This study of Nebraska-made quilts spans the years from the 1870s through the 1980s, which extends from the early settlement of the state through the recent farm crisis. The descriptive profile of Nebraska quilts that emerged highlights the many similarities of Nebraska-made quilts to other American quilts of the same periods. Analysis shows that Nebraska quilts reflected the technological, artistic, and social trends of the times and points to changes in popularity of quilt types and pieced and applique patterns over the years. Although distinctive quilt types, styles, and quilting practices were reported in other states, Nebraska quilts are notable …

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Multivariate Analysis Of Quality Of Life And Migration In North Dakota, Mohammad Hemmasi Aug 1995

Multivariate Analysis Of Quality Of Life And Migration In North Dakota, Mohammad Hemmasi

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Principle components analysis and multiple regression were used to examine spatial variations in quality of life indicators, and relationships between quality of life indicators and net migration rates for North Dakota counties between 1980 and 1990. Three quality of life dimensions were identified: Affluence, Suffering, and Demography. Of the three derived indicators, Affluence was the best overall statistical determinant of county migration rates. Adverse quality of life and migration trends were especially evident for counties with high non-white population proportions; such counties may need special development policies.

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Review Of Restoring Prairie Wetlands: An Ecological Approach By Susan M. Galatowitsch And Arnold G. Van Der Valko, John Ortmann, James L. Stubbendieck Aug 1995

Review Of Restoring Prairie Wetlands: An Ecological Approach By Susan M. Galatowitsch And Arnold G. Van Der Valko, John Ortmann, James L. Stubbendieck

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

For reasons of national policy, environmental need, and funding availability, wetlands have become one of the most active areas for ecological restoration. But, as this timely and useful book points out, such projects too often have consisted of plugging the drain tile or ditch and letting nature do the rest. This approach has resulted in failure more often than recognized. Failure is obvious when a restored "wetland" remains dry because the regional water table has dropped, more subtle when natural plant communities fail to regenerate spontaneously, or nearly invisible when predation exceeds waterfowl production. Lack of planning and basic understanding …

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Grasslands: An Introduction, Kathleen H. Keeler Jul 1995

Grasslands: An Introduction, Kathleen H. Keeler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Grasslands" was the subject of the seventeenth annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies, held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in April 1994. Grasslands are so basic to the Great Plains experience as to be invisible. If you stand here in eastern Nebraska, it is so far in any direction across grasslands to any other landscape (a cornfield is a planted grassland, after all) that the role of grasslands in our lives does not seem worth considering. Local variation is much more visible. You can't see the prairie for the grasses, to adapt the idiom. And yet, grasslands …

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Water Regulation Decisions In Central Kansas Affecting Cheyenne Bottoms Wetland And Neighboring Farmers, Leslie Aileen Duram Feb 1995

Water Regulation Decisions In Central Kansas Affecting Cheyenne Bottoms Wetland And Neighboring Farmers, Leslie Aileen Duram

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

A water use regulation order by the Chief Engineer of the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture addressed a controversial issue: water allocation for agricultural, wetland, and urban users in Central Kansas. The specific study area includes Cheyenne Bottoms Wetland, a preserve with important habitat conditions for many migratory bird species. This region is economically dependent on irrigated agriculture. Groundwater withdrawal for irrigation had caused the water table to decline and left the wetland with no consistent water source. The Chief Engineer required many farmers to reduce their irrigation water use. An evaluation of this …

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Hydroclimatic Perspectives On Waterfowl Production In The North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region, Paul Todhunter Feb 1995

Hydroclimatic Perspectives On Waterfowl Production In The North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region, Paul Todhunter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region is one of the most unique and important wetland environments for waterfowl in North America. A water balance climatology is developed for this region for the period 1895-1990. A monthly water balance time series for the 96-year period was computed utilizing the Thornthwaite water balance methodology and a regional time series developed from area-weighted National Climate Data Center divisional data. Results illustrate the unique seasonal dynamics of the mean soil moisture regime, the frequency distribution of selected water balance variables over the period of record, and the large intra-annual and interannual variability which characterizes …

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A Note From The Director - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995 Feb 1995

A Note From The Director - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This edition marks the first issue of Great Plains Research under the editorship of J. Clark Archer.

The article, "Changing Employment Patterns on the Northern and Central Great Plains," co-authored by Richard E. Lonsdale and 1. Clark Archer and coincidentally printed in this issue, was accepted under the previous editorship of Clare V. McKanna, Jr. I have copyedited the article for this volume.

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Review Of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities In The Modern Americanwest By Carl Abbott, Eugene P. Moehring Feb 1995

Review Of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities In The Modern Americanwest By Carl Abbott, Eugene P. Moehring

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Carl Abbott enhances his reputation for excellence with this interpretive survey of the modern western city. He begins with World War II when heavy federal spending revitalized urban areas stagnating from twenty years of farm-mine depression. Abbott highlights the findings of Gerald Nash, Greg Hise and others while injecting his own scholarly insights at strategic points, a pattern that continues throughout the book. For example, he expands upon D. W. Meinig's concept of imperial Texas by extending Dallas-Fort Worth's range of influence far up into the Wyoming oil country. Then, building upon his own recently published work, Abbott develops further …

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Review Of Community Development Strategies On The Northern Plains By Kevin A. Choy And Richard C. Rounds, Joseph Luther Feb 1995

Review Of Community Development Strategies On The Northern Plains By Kevin A. Choy And Richard C. Rounds, Joseph Luther

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Kevin Choy and Richard Rounds, of the Rural Development Institute at Brandon University in Manitoba, have examined strategies for rural community economic development on the conterminous Great Plains of North America. Their exploration, description and explanation of these strategies has derived a fresh look at community economic development theory that could serve to unite many of the competing factions in this field. Their schematic of rural development theories provides an understanding of the various frames of reference for this field of study and practice. For this reason, this book should be a highly recommended reading for students in the rural …

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Review Of Meant To Be Wild: The Struggle To Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding By Jan Deblieu, William Scharf Feb 1995

Review Of Meant To Be Wild: The Struggle To Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding By Jan Deblieu, William Scharf

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In the early 1970s, when I watched Frances Hamerstrom's initial attempts to achieve captive breeding of golden eagles, and later to induce red-tailed Hawks to complete most of their life cycle in captivity, I thought the practice to be only a novelty and biological sideline. I had no idea that the captive breeding and re-release of wild species into their natural environments would become such an accepted and important technique. Indeed this book documents many such attempts and some notable successes.

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Review Of Watching Kansas Wildlife: A Guide To 101 Sites By Bob Gress And George Potts, Ronald M. Case Feb 1995

Review Of Watching Kansas Wildlife: A Guide To 101 Sites By Bob Gress And George Potts, Ronald M. Case

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This publication is designed for the novice wildlife watcher and it is a guide to where to go to watch wildlife, not how to identify them. The authors are enthusiastic, and rightfully so, about wildlife in Kansas. There is considerable wildlife diversity throughout the Great Plains yet many people do not know or appreciate this treasure.

The book provides a statewide map showing the physiographic regions and all 101 viewing sites in Kansas. Additionally, there are six maps indicating the locations of sites and highways in that region. Each site description includes directions to the site, its size, ownership, wildlife …

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Review Of Policy For American Agriculture: Choices And Consequences By M. C. Hallberg, E. Wesley F. Peterson Feb 1995

Review Of Policy For American Agriculture: Choices And Consequences By M. C. Hallberg, E. Wesley F. Peterson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

M. C. Hallberg is a professor of agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State University and this book treats agricultural policy almost exclusively from that disciplinary perspective. For Hallberg, agricultural policy is largely confined to the various market interventions of national governments, particularly those programs that have been put in place to regulate farm production, prices and incomes. The book is organized into four parts. The first section includes three chapters dealing with the nature of agricultural policy and the legislative and political processes that produce U.S. farm programs. The second section includes two chapters designed to provide an analytical framework for …

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Review Of American Agriculture: A Brief History By R. Douglas Hurt, John Fraser Hart Feb 1995

Review Of American Agriculture: A Brief History By R. Douglas Hurt, John Fraser Hart

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book is a history of American agriculture by an academic agriculturalist who is interested in farm programs, policies, organizations, institutions, and bureaucracies, but cares little about real farms. Although he occasionally itemizes the products of farms, he largely ignores cropping systems, livestock feeding operations, and the ways farmers integrate them to produce these products.

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Review Of Turning On Water With A Shovel: The Career Of Elwood Mead By James R. Kluger, James W. Hewitt Feb 1995

Review Of Turning On Water With A Shovel: The Career Of Elwood Mead By James R. Kluger, James W. Hewitt

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Elwood Mead, like Elwood P. Dowd, saw things other people didn't. Both preferred the world of their imagination. But the resemblance ends there. Mead labored zealously for over 50 years to make his imaginary world a reality. And to a significant degree he was successful.

James R. Kluger, essentially revising his doctoral dissertation for publication, has traced the broad outlines of Mead's career as America's foremost proponent of irrigation. This is not a biography in the strict sense of the word. Kluger gives us no insights into Mead's character, or his family life. The work is confined to recounting, on …

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Review Of The Fishes Of Alberta (2nd Edition) By Joseph S. Nelson And Martin J. Paetz, R. A. Bodaly Feb 1995

Review Of The Fishes Of Alberta (2nd Edition) By Joseph S. Nelson And Martin J. Paetz, R. A. Bodaly

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This useful and attractive book is a much needed second edition of The Fishes of Alberta, first published in 1970. It is expanded and improved from the first edition and will be an essential reference for biologists working with the fishes of Alberta and surrounding areas, for those interested in the distribution of freshwater fishes in North America, and for anglers and the interested public as well.

The Fishes of Alberta is organized into two main sections. An introductory section has chapters on various types offish habitat in the different river basins and regions of Alberta, fish management and …

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Review Of Prairie Populism: The Fate Of Agrarian Radicalism In Kansas, Nebraska, And Iowa, 1880-1892 By Jeffrey Ostler, Robert W. Cherny Feb 1995

Review Of Prairie Populism: The Fate Of Agrarian Radicalism In Kansas, Nebraska, And Iowa, 1880-1892 By Jeffrey Ostler, Robert W. Cherny

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Why was there no populism in Iowa? That is the question posed by Jeffrey Ostler, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon, in this revised version of his dissertation. The question itself is more complicated than it might first seem, and Ostler's thoughtful and carefully-researched answers have interesting implications for the study of late 19th century politics more generally.

Ostler approaches his question by comparing Iowa with Kansas and Nebraska. Arguing that the economic situation of farmers in the three states was not sufficiently different to explain the great dissimilarity in their support for the Populist Party in …

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Review Of Farms, Mines, And Main Streets: Uneven Development In A Dakota County By Caroline S. Tauxe, David B. Danbom Feb 1995

Review Of Farms, Mines, And Main Streets: Uneven Development In A Dakota County By Caroline S. Tauxe, David B. Danbom

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Anthropologist Caroline Tauxe's Farms, Mines, and Main Streets is a study of the impact of energy development in Mercer County, North Dakota. Mercer County's rich deposits of lignite became the focus of attention by energy companies and policymakers during the energy crisis of the seventies. Already the site of several mines and power plants-lignite begins to lose its potency soon after it is taken out of the ground-the county was the focus of intense energy development, the most important facet being the Great Plains coal gasification plant, which converted lignite into natural gas.

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