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Chronicles the development of midwestern community automobile manufacture prior to the Great Depression and identifies five early car makers and their contributions to the automobile industry
Author : Curt McConnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780803231634
Chronicles the development of midwestern community automobile manufacture prior to the Great Depression and identifies five early car makers and their contributions to the automobile industry
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803247871
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
Author : Ian Frazier
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2001-05-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1466828889
National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Great Plains
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Author : Curt McConnell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780804733809
McConnell cuts through the fiction, legends, and industry-produced propaganda that have long surrounded the first transcontinental automobile trips as he relates long-lost personal accounts by pioneering travelers. 140 illustrations.
Author : Curt McConnell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780804743969
A richly illustrated history of the first cross-country auto trips exposes the role of these well-publicized jaunts in changing the way the public felt about this new technology. (Transportation)
Author : Michael L. Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313016062
This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Rural development
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
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Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 1971
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 1939-04
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