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Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs is a panorama on a continental
canvas: the Great Plains of North America, stretching from Texas to
Alberta. Onto this surface the author lays the large features of
regional practice in the harvesting and threshing of wheat during
the days before the combined harvester-harvesting with binder and
header, threshing with bull thresher and steam engine. Into the
picture he places the key figures who accomplished the task of
gathering the grain-the farm men and women, the custom threshermen,
and the bindlestiffs, or itinerant laborers. Affectionately he
sketches the small details of folklife that comprised the everyday
work and culture of the wheat belt-building shocks, loading racks,
constructing stacks, pitching bundles into the separator, hauling
water to the engine, drinking deep from the crockery water jug.
Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs is a profusely illustrated study of
a complex, vigorous regional culture concerned with the production
of wheat-a culture that centered around the annual harvest and
declined with the advent of the combine. This is an examination of
the interaction of culture, environment, and technology with import
for the fields of agricultural history and regional history. More
than that, with its grassroots research, its descriptions of tools
and customs, and its lavish illustrations, it is a re-creation of a
proud phase of regional life previously captured only in yellowed
albumen photographs.
White Paper No. 1 of the Center for Heritage Renewal gathers
together the center's submissions to regulatory agencies pertaining
to a proposed 365kV power transmission line to be built across the
historic site of the Battle of Killdeer Mountain, 1864. On
September 4, 2013, the center informed the North Dakota Public
Service Commission that submissions to the PSC by Basin Electric
were flawed in that they failed to note the proposed transmission
line transected the most significant historic site in North Dakota.
An expanded submission to the Rural Utilities Service on February
3, 2014, explored the deliberate suppression of knowledge of the
Killdeer Mountain Battlefield site by proponents of the
transmission line. The center argues for remanding the transmission
line proposal back to the public service commission for sworn
testimony.
Pioneer rancher W. H. Hamilton met the challenges of wolves,
mosquitoes, and sticky, sometimes impassable soil, called "gumbo"
in Harding and Butte counties in the 1880s and 1890s. A trailblazer
in the transition from the open range to the small ranch, he loved
the cowboy life and the wild country between his Belle Fourche
River homestead and his Cave Hills ranch. In a new introduction,
historian Thomas D. Isern familiarizes modern readers with the
range-cattle industry and northwestern South Dakota landscape.
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism
in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines
the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of
disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography,
history, and nutrition_the editors have selected a group of
engaging essays to help students explore the idea of food as a
window into American culture. The editors' general introductory
essay offers an overview of current scholarship, and part
introductions contextualize the readings within each section. This
lively reader will be a valuable supplement for courses on American
culture across the social sciences.
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