Prairie City

Story of an American Community, the

Angie Debo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

1998
University of Oklahoma Press (Verlag)
978-0-8061-3094-1 (ISBN)

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Prairie City is the social history of a representative midwestern town - a composite of several Oklahoma small towns. Beginning with the one flashing moment of the 1889 land run, which opened the Oklahoma Lands for white settlement, Angie Debo depicts the struggles of the settlers on the vast prairie to build a community despite seasons of drought, prairie fire, and destitution. Solidly based on historical research, Prairie City chronicles the arrival of the railroad, the growth of political parties and educational institutions, KKK uprisings, the oil boom, the Depression and the New Deal, and the effects of two world wars on small-town America.

Angie Debo was reared in a pioneer community, at Marshall, Oklahoma, where it has been her privilege to know from childhood the folkways of the Indians and the traditions of the western settlers. A member of her community high school's first graduating class, she later attended the University of Oklahoma, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa, and took her B.A. and later her Ph.D. degree; she received her master's degree from the University of Chicago. Her education was combined with intervals of teaching in country schools, starting at the age of sixteen. Miss Debo's distinguished reputation as a regional scholar has been enhanced by her book, The Rise and. Fall of the Choctaw Republic, which won the John H. Dunning prize of the American Historical Society for the best book submitted in the field of United States history in 1934, and for her later, book, And Still the Waters Run. She has been a teacher in schools and colleges both in Oklahoma and Texas and was curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas. More recently she has been state director of the Federal Writers' Project in Oklahoma, in which capacity she edited Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State for the American Guide Series.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.1998
Zusatzinfo	16 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Oklahoma
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	377 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-8061-3094-6 / 0806130946
ISBN-13	978-0-8061-3094-1 / 9780806130941
Zustand	Neuware