Red Earth
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A01=Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
Author_Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
Blaine County Oklahoma
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Kiowa farming after allotment
Kiowas before allotment
Oklahoma agriculture
Oklahoma ecology
Oklahoma frontier
Oklahoma history
Oklahoma race relations
Rainy Mountain
Product details
- ISBN 9780700613243
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 159 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2004
- Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Before the great Land Rush of 1889, Oklahoma territory was an island of wildness, home to one of the last tracts of biologically diverse prairie. In the space of a quarter century, the territory had given over to fenced farmsteads, with even the racial diversity of its recent past simplified. In this book, Bonnie Lynn-Sherow describes how a thriving ecology was reduced by market agriculture. Examining three central Oklahoma counties with distinct populations - Kiowas, white settlers, and black settlers - she analyzes the effects of racism, economics, and politics on prairie landscapes while addressing the broader issues of settlement and agriculture on the environment. Drawing on a host of sources - oral histories, letters and journals, and agricultural and census records - Lynn-Sherow examines Oklahoma history from the Land Rush to statehood to show how each community viewed its land as a resource, what its members planted, how they cooperated, and whether they succeeded. Anglo settlers claimed the choice parcels, introduced mechanized farming, and planted corn and wheat; blacks tended to grow cotton on lands unsuited for its cultivation; and Kiowas strove to become pastoralists.
