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• ISBN: 0295969652 (alk. paper) :
• ISBN: 9780295969657 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0295969660 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
• ISBN: 9780295969664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: ix, 290 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Papers from a conference held in Billings, Mont., in June 1989.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: A region of regions / William L. Lang -- Persisting reality : the Northern Tier States as "plundered provinces," 1900-1940 / William G. Robbins -- Agrarianism, United States Indian policy, and the Muckleshoot Reservation / Kent D. Richards -- The reservation as place : a South Dakota essay / Frank Pommersheim -- "March of civilization" : Standing Rock and the Sioux Act of 1889 / Carole Barrett -- Persistence and adaptation : the emergence of a legal culture in the Northern Tier Territories, 1853-1890 / John R. Wunder -- The long arm of the law : crime and federal law enforcement in the Northern Tier Territories / Roland L. De Lorme -- The first attempt to organize Dakota Territory / William E. Lass -- Railroads and urbanization in the Northwestern States / John C. Hudson -- Protest movements on the Northern Tier : the Pullman Boycott of 1894 and the 1922 Shopmen's Strike / W. Thomas White -- New Deal economic programs in the Northern Tier States, 1933-1939 / Leonard J. Arrington and Don C. Reading -- Traveling the hope highway : an intellectual history of the West River country of South Dakota / Paula M. Nelson -- Summing up : grounds for identity / Donald Worster.

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Northwestern States > History > Congresses.