the past few decades the High Plains have consistently been losing its population. So‚ in 1987 Doctors Frank and Deborah Popper introduced the idea of Buffalo Commons. They described this project as “A combination of literary metaphor‚ public-policy proposal‚ futurist prediction and ecological restoration project” (The Buffalo Commons: Its Antecedents). The essential focus of this project was to replace the ever decrease population by returning buffalo back to the Plains. This plan was originally met
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Imagine being blinded by dirt and disoriented by wind. Imagine having to cover your faces whenever you left the house and having to cover your food whenever you ate. Well‚ welcome to the Dust Bowl. During the 1930’s dust storms took over the Great Plains and the borders of Texas and Oklahoma. Many Americans had troublesome days due to the dust storms which were mainly caused by the loss of short grass prairie. With tractors many farmers over plowed their fields and with the grass gone‚ it would leave
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History of Sports in America Newspaper Assignment: July 5th‚ 1910 Cleveland Plain Dealer HSTY 272 Pugilism is perhaps the most violent of sports invented‚ testing the strength of a man in an all out brawl‚ sometimes resulting in the loss of limb or life. Overtime‚ the sport became more regulated with three sets of rules being established during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The sport has remained relatively unchanged since 1867 when rules regulating the use of gloves and a standard
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of historiography view the West? How accurate is Turner’s thesis? What is your historiographical view of the West’s importance in American History? Five Important Groups 1. Miners 2. Railroads 3. Ranchers 4. Farmers 5. Native Americans (Plain Indians) Consider what brought them to the West‚ what brought about the conflicts and why‚ and how those conflicts got resolved 1) Miners California Gold Rush 1849 lead to an influx of miners seeking fortune Placer Mining: wash debris away to
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barbed wire was invented. finally settlers had to alter what they grew in order for it to survive. instead of traditional wheat‚ they grew red wheat‚ which faired better in that environment. one problem white settlers faced in the west was the great plains indian population. when america was settled‚ most of the indians had been forced westward. those indians were now on land that white settlers wanted. the beginning of the conflict between settlers and indians came whent he transcontinental railroad
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New Concerns in the North‚ 1868-1876 Grantism: Grant’s presidency was filled with bribery‚ fraud‚ and corruption—his subordinates‚ not him personally; he had few political skills His sec/state named FISH! Convinced England to pay America $15.5 mil. for Confederate ships they damaged during the war Previous president annexed Alaska‚ so Grant tried to annex Dominican Republic and failed. The Liberals’ Revolt: Liberal Republicans (free trade‚ hard money‚ supply/demand)—thought Reconstruction
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F1 Outline I. The Great Plains A. Background 1. The Great Plains had blazing temps in the daytime and frigid cold at night. The only vegetation that could survive was grass which made the Great Plains a great place for livestock that needed to graze B. Indians of the Great Plains 1. There were about 100‚000 native Americans in the great plains i. A portion of them were settled in permanent villages. These people were decimated by European diseases such as smallpox ii. The others belonged
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Emily Arochi Plain View/Open Fields ADJ/275 February 7‚ 2010 In our readings the plain view doctrine states “that items that are within the sight of an officer who is legally in a place from which the view is made may properly be seized without a warrant—as long as such items are immediately recognizable as subject to seizure”. There are some requirements of the plain view doctrine. One requirement is the awareness of the items solely through the officer’s sight. Another requirement is that
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Unit II Article Review Duon Ladner Columbia Southern University Unit II Article Review In today’s world we are faced with many types of disasters. Disasters can be broken down into two types or causes; Natural and Technical/Man-made. Natural disasters are considered events such as a flood‚ earthquake‚ or hurricane that causes a great deal of destruction and fatalities. Technical/Man-made disasters are the ones caused by humans. This type of disaster comes from our negligence
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was a very unexpected tragedy that hit America in the 1930 lasting a whole decade. The dust bowl accrued mostly of high climates mixing with the broken down jet stream in Mexico created weather for a drought season. Then came loving in the Southern Plains during the Dust Bowl which was difficult because many areas lacked water and food supply. Many farmers went broke trying to keep up with the Great Depression which dried up most of the land. "Dust landed on homes like snow." Said Jim Durrand. Since
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