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At Home on the Range: Essays on the History of Western Social and Domestic Life
By John R. Wunder
232 pages
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- Greenwood Press
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- Westport, CT
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- 1985
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Synopsis
The nine essays presented by John R. Wunder collectively expose the domestic and technological details of American pioneer life on the High Plains. The essays, each written by a leading authority in the field, examine such topics as early ranching and farming in the Rio Grande Valley and the Staked Plains; the impact on Native American and settler women of life on the agricultural frontier; the response to perceived threats by agriculturalists after the Civil War; and the agriculturalists' entry ...
The nine essays presented by John R. Wunder collectively expose the domestic and technological details of American pioneer life on the High Plains. The essays, each written by a leading authority in the field, examine such topics as early ranching and farming in the Rio Grande Valley and the Staked Plains; the impact on Native American and settler women of life on the agricultural frontier; the response to perceived threats by agriculturalists after the Civil War; and the agriculturalists' entry into the twentieth century via their response to cultural change. The final chapter, a speech made in 1890 by a Scottish traveller, contains a contemporary observation of the real and mythical qualities of life on the frontier.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgment iv
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction xi
- Notes xiii
- I - Initial Cultural Implantation 1
- 1 - Early Ranching Along the Rio Grande 3
- Notes 16
- 2 - Critters, Sourdough, and Dugouts: Women and Imitation Theory on the Staked Plains, 1875-1910 19
- Notes 34
- II - Agricultural Acculturation 37
- 3 - The Creation of Indian Farm Women: Field Matrons and Acculturation on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation, 1895-1906 39
- Notes 51
- 4 - Concepts of Domesticity on the Southern Plains Agricultural Frontier, 1870-1920 57
- Notes 68
- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgment iv
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction xi
- Notes xiii
- I - Initial Cultural Implantation 1
- 1 - Early Ranching Along the Rio Grande 3
- Notes 16
- 2 - Critters, Sourdough, and Dugouts: Women and Imitation Theory on the Staked Plains, 1875-1910 19
- Notes 34
- II - Agricultural Acculturation 37
- 3 - The Creation of Indian Farm Women: Field Matrons and Acculturation on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation, 1895-1906 39
- Notes 51
- 4 - Concepts of Domesticity on the Southern Plains Agricultural Frontier, 1870-1920 57
- Notes 68
- III - Collectivism 71
- 5 - Community of Individualists: the Panhandle Stock Association, 1879-1889 73
- Notes 89
- 6 - The First Years of the Texas Farm Bureau Federation 95
- Notes 112
- IV - Technology, War, and Cultural Change 119
- 7 - Brought, Bought, and Borrowed: Material Culture on the Oklahoma Farming Frontier, 1889-1907 121
- Notes 131
- 8 - Farm Technology and "The the Great Debate": the Rhetoric of Horse Lovers and Tractor Boosters, 1900-1945 137
- Notes 149
- 9 - Drafting Farmers in World War II 157
- Notes 171
- V - Agricultural Imagery and Reality 175
- 10 - Cowboy Life on a Western Ranch: Reminiscences of Alexander Mackay 177
- Notes 195
- Bibliographical Essay 197
- Index 203
- Contributors 211