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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"The American West"”.
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Aerial Empire: contested sovereignties and the American West
… and political history to argue that air shaped the United States’ colonization of the intermountain west. By focusing on environmental management and federal-Indian policy, it shows how claiming and regulating air as a natural resource both supported and subverted the nation’s control over the …
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Re-Framing the American West: Contemporary Artists Engage History
… who revisit, revise, reimagine, reclaim, and otherwise engage directly with art of the American Frontier from 1820-1920. The revision of the historic images calls attention to the myth and ideologies imbedded in the imagery. Likewise, these contemporary images are essentially a framing of …
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The Tradition of Microtonal Guitar on the American West Coast
<p>Microtonal music in the United States has a significant connection with the American West Coast. Influential microtonal musicians and theorists originated on the West Coast or passed through California, subsequently inspiring future generations of composers to work outside of twelve-tone equal …
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Mystics, Radicals, Sinners, and Saints: Freedom, Rebirth, and the American West
This dissertation explores the lives of John Muir, the Taos Society of Artists, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Everett Ruess, Edith Warner, and the Taos hippies who journeyed to the American West in search of freedom. In the Western setting, with its diverse yet distinctive and stunning terrain, these …
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Owen Wister and the American West: A Biographical and Critical Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5904584.pdf: 29306796 bytes, checksum: d2db65b58c0f16f974c5282d076289e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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Visionaries of the American West : Mari Sandoz and Her Four Plains Protagonists
<p>The authorial reputation of Mari Sandoz has long rested in the shadow of other writers of her era. First of all, Sandoz wrote from and about a relatively remote region of the United States. In addition, she firmly refused to produce popular works at the expense of sacrificing the truth she …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
Historians of the American West have long identified the federal government's important role in shaping the region's physical and social landscapes, especially concerning water development. The Bureau of Reclamation, which built most of the West's major dams and water projects, traces its origins …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
Historians of the American West have long identified the federal government's important role in shaping the region's physical and social landscapes, especially concerning water development. The Bureau of Reclamation, which built most of the West's major dams and water projects, traces its origins …
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Addressing agricultural salinity in the American West : harnessing behavioral diversity to institutional design
Salinity accumulation in the Lower Arkansas Basin (LAB) of Colorado threatens environmental quality, the agricultural economy and the potential for efficient reuse of water. Salinity is a threat to "hydraulic sustainability", since it will affect societal and environmental sustainability in a …
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High Sierra Lost and Found: The Origins of Alpine Skisport in the American West
This thesis investigates the origins and evolution of modern alpine skiing in the American West, focusing on the Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush era. Following the introduction of wooden skis by Norwegian immigrants working on mines in Plumas and Sierra Counties, skiing quickly transitioned from …
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WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST
… and Judy Blunt are contemporary women writers of the American West. Both women grew up on ranches in Montana but left in adulthood. Despite leaving, each woman maintains significant intellectual and emotional connections to the land and culture of her youth in her writing. Blew's memoir All But …
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WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST
… and Judy Blunt are contemporary women writers of the American West. Both women grew up on ranches in Montana but left in adulthood. Despite leaving, each woman maintains significant intellectual and emotional connections to the land and culture of her youth in her writing. Blew's memoir All But …
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The Sand Creek Massacre and the History of Greater Reconstruction in the American West
<p>In the traditional U.S. historical narrative, the Civil War & Reconstruction era is a North vs. South story. Nevertheless, the era of western expansion, a central theme throughout the nineteenth century, has no contingent place within this traditional narrative. Meanwhile, the history of the …
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Sermons in Stones: Mormon Chosenness and the Politics of Land in the American West
<p>This study explores the intersection of religion, land use, and political resistance in Latter-day Saint culture, arguing that Mormon land ethics are shaped by a ritualized process I term the “Cycle of Chosenness.” Through historical and ethnographic analysis, I trace how collective memory of …
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"Black Cowboys: Self-Sufficiency in the American West through the ideology of Booker T. Washington"
<p>Despite the black cowboy's considerable achievement, the history of their lives remains largely uncovered. Most historiographies present a sympathetic picture, but what is missing is the voice of the black cowboys. Using the views and ideologies of Booker T. Washington, black cowboys were able …
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Growth management strategies in the American west : a case study of intergovernmental cooperation in Colorado
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Examining the Influence of Landscape on Natural Resource Management in the American West: A Geospatial Approach
… values and management in a variety of ways. These diverse influences can be generated by biophysical or social systems, or interactions between systems. This dissertation examines the landscape determinants of natural resource values and management. Chapter 2 examines moose habitat …
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Between a rock and a hard place: the chemistry, biology, and lability of glacial meltwaters in the American West
… mountain lakes and streams across all regions of the American West. The resulting changes in volume, timing, and chemistry of meltwater discharged by these features appears to be having significant effects on the adjacent alpine headwater ecosystems they feed. Whereas both glaciers and rock …
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Real Wild West
A series of poems on the landscape and politics of the American West.
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Real Wild West
A series of poems on the landscape and politics of the American West.
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