At home on the range : essays on the history of Western social and domestic life
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At home on the range : essays on the history of Western social and domestic life
（Contributions in American history, no. 108）
Greenwood Press, c1985
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-201) and index
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The nine essays presented by John R. Wunder collectively expose the domestic and technological details of American pioneer life on the High Plains. The essays, each written by a leading authority in the field, examine such topics as early ranching and farming in the Rio Grande Valley and the Staked Plains; the impact on Native American and settler women of life on the agricultural frontier; the response to perceived threats by agriculturalists after the Civil War; and the agriculturalists' entry into the twentieth century via their response to cultural change. The final chapter, a speech made in 1890 by a Scottish traveller, contains a contemporary observation of the real and mythical qualities of life on the frontier.
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