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The early struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 1970s has typically been told from the perspective of the coasts—in places like New York, San Francisco, and Miami. But the …
Leader of the first tourist expedition into Yosemite in 1855, James Mason Hutchings became a tireless promoter of the valley - and of himself. Seeking to create an alternative to …
When Isaac Goodnow and five fellow New Englanders arrived at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers in March of 1855, they pitched a tent and launched a town. Harassment …
Arnold Bauer grew up on his family’s 160-acre farm in Goshen Township in Clay County, Kansas, amidst a land of prairie grass and rich creek-bottom soil. His meditative and moving …
After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with ‘Trump country.’ Long dismissed as ‘flyover’ land, the area where he was born …
Winner: David J. Weber-William P. Clements PrizeWinner: Robert G. Athearn AwardChoice Outstanding Academic Title“Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said to the author, “you will get all …
The Flint Hills are America's last tallgrass prairie, a green enclave set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas. Known as the home of the Big Beef Steer, these rugged …
With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. A U.S. folk innovation now in use …