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inauthor:"Jon Lauck" - books.google.com
The Lost Region demonstrates the regions importance, the depth of historical work once written about it, and the lessons that can be learned from some of its prominent historians, all with the intent of once again finding the forgotten ...
inauthor:"Jon Lauck" - books.google.com
In rescuing the story of Dakota’s settlers from historical obscurity, Prairie Republic dissents from the recent darker portrayal of western history and expands our view and understanding of the American democratic tradition.
inauthor:"Jon Lauck" - books.google.com
The story behind the unseating of a Senate majority leader the race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota was widely acknowledged as “the other big race of 2004.” Second in prominence only to the presidential race, the ...
inauthor:"Jon Lauck" - books.google.com
Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican values to the northern plains and invoked ...
inauthor:"Jon Lauck" - books.google.com
In the apt language of Minnesota’s F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Midwest slid from being the “warm center” of the republic to its “ragged edge.” This book explains the factors that triggered the demise of the Midwest’s regionalist ...
inauthor:"Jon Lauck" - books.google.com
The book offers the first serious historical examination of the National Farmers Organization, which fully embraced the bargaining power cause in the postwar period.
inauthor:"Jon Lauck" - books.google.com
A chronicle of the Midwest's formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation's history, filling a gap where some scholars' indifference or disdain have too long stood in.
inauthor:"Jon Lauck" - books.google.com
The collection's six sections cover almost every conceivable aspect of this 420-mile-long prairie river dividing South Dakota and Iowa and Minnesota and a major tributary to the Missouri River, never before the subject of a book: Natural ...