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This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of that arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics to substantiate his thesis that the 98th meridian constituted an institutional fault--comparable to a geological fault--at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered."… (más)
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The physical conditions which exist in that land, and which inexorably control the operations of men, are such that the industries of the West are necessarily unlike those of the East, and their institutions must be adapted to their industrial wants. It is thus that a new phase of Aryan civilization is being developed in the western half of America. -- John Wesley Powell
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The Great Plains area, as the term will be used in this book, does not conform in its boundaries to those commonly given by geographers and historians. The Great Plains comprise a much greater area than is usually designated, -- an area which may best be defined in terms of topography, vegetation, and rainfall.
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". . . practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered."
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A wild, wide land of mysteries, Of sea-salt lakes and dried-up seas, And lonely wells and pools; a land That seems so like dead Palestine, Save that its wastes have no confine Till push'd against the levell'e skies. A land from out whose depths shall rise The new-time prophets. Yea, the land From out whose awful depths shall come, A lowly man, with dusty feet, A man fresh from his Maker's hand, A singer singing oversweet, A charmer charming very wise; And then all men shall not be dumb.
This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of that arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics to substantiate his thesis that the 98th meridian constituted an institutional fault--comparable to a geological fault--at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered."
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