Red earth
Subtitle: race and agriculture in Oklahoma Territory
By: Bonnie Lynn-Sherow.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma; Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Oklahoma -- History; Land use -- Social aspects -- Oklahoma -- History; African American farmers -- Oklahoma -- History; Indians of North America -- Agriculture -- Oklahoma -- History; Human ecology -- Oklahoma; Oklahoma -- Race relations; Oklahoma -- Environmental conditions; Oklahoma -- Social conditions
Description: "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. Lynn-Sherow shows that as each group vied for control over its environment, its members imposed their own cultural views on the uses of nature - and on the legitimacy of the 'other' in their own relationship with the red earth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: The prairie; title: The promise; title: The black frontier; title: Blaine County beginnings; title: Land rush; title: Rainy Mountain : Kiowas and the land before allotment; title: Owners and tenants : Kiowa farming after allotment; title: Conclusion : ordering the elements.