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- catalog abstract ""Regional history at its best ... Many of the traditional tales of early hardships- grasshopper plagues, Indian attacks, the stress of loneliness and isolation, drought, blizzards, prairie fires, and the unaccostomed hazards of nature- are retold with vigor and a sense of immediacy. These gritty tales of pioneer persistence and stubbornness are used to illustrate the region's cyclical history of hope and despair ... Not the least is Miner's talents in his engaging style. Images are alive, progression of the story lively, and the analysis convincing. This first-rate book is an important addition to the history of Kansas and, more broadly, to the study of western settlement."--American Historical Review.".
- catalog contributor b565049.
- catalog coverage "Kansas Environmental conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Kansas History 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Kansas History.".
- catalog created "c1986.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "c1986.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1986.".
- catalog description ""Regional history at its best ... Many of the traditional tales of early hardships- grasshopper plagues, Indian attacks, the stress of loneliness and isolation, drought, blizzards, prairie fires, and the unaccostomed hazards of nature- are retold with vigor and a sense of immediacy. These gritty tales of pioneer persistence and stubbornness are used to illustrate the region's cyclical history of hope and despair ... Not the least is Miner's talents in his engaging style. Images are alive, progression of the story lively, and the analysis convincing. This first-rate book is an important addition to the history of Kansas and, more broadly, to the study of western settlement."--American Historical Review.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [281]-293.".
- catalog description "The Blue Hills -- Savages -- The Steel Nile -- "This Ocean of Bloom" -- The ravaging hopper -- Colonists -- Sheepskin and teakettles -- At the front -- Dull Knife -- The weak shall flee -- Heaven of brass, earth of iron -- Home -- Abide with me -- Dam the draws -- Ties that bind -- Ravanna rhymes with Hosanna -- Red-haired men in silk ties -- Nature and civilization in Western Kansas.".
- catalog extent "viii, 303 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "West of Wichita.".
- catalog identifier "0700602860 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "West of Wichita.".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "c1986.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "West of Wichita.".
- catalog spatial "Great Plains".
- catalog spatial "Great Plains.".
- catalog spatial "Kansas Environmental conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Kansas History 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Kansas History.".
- catalog spatial "Kansas".
- catalog spatial "Kansas.".
- catalog subject "978.1/031 19".
- catalog subject "F686 .M56 1986".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Great Plains.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Kansas.".
- catalog subject "Human ecology Kansas History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Pioneers Great Plains History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Blue Hills -- Savages -- The Steel Nile -- "This Ocean of Bloom" -- The ravaging hopper -- Colonists -- Sheepskin and teakettles -- At the front -- Dull Knife -- The weak shall flee -- Heaven of brass, earth of iron -- Home -- Abide with me -- Dam the draws -- Ties that bind -- Ravanna rhymes with Hosanna -- Red-haired men in silk ties -- Nature and civilization in Western Kansas.".
- catalog title "West of Wichita : settling the high plains of Kansas, 1865-1890 / Craig Miner.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".