Title: Red earth
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: African American farmers, Agriculture, Environmental conditions, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Human ecology, Indians of North America, Land use, Race relations, Social aspects, Social aspects of Agriculture, Social aspects of Land use, Social conditions, Frontier and pioneer life, oklahoma, Agriculture, social aspects, Land use, united states, Indians of north america, agriculture, Oklahoma, social conditions
Places: Oklahoma
LC classification: F705.A1 L96 2004