{"product_id":"the-great-plains-second-edition-9781496231338","title":"The Great Plains, Second Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublished in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. Arguing that \"the Great Plains environment . . . constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders,\" Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which \"practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Prescott Webb \u003c\/b\u003e(1888-1963) was among the most important and influential historians of the American West. He spent his career at the University of Texas and enjoyed visiting appointments in London and Oxford. Webb was the author of a number of highly provocative books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Rangers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eAndrew R. Graybill\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the author or editor of four books, including \u003ci\u003ePolicing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2007). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50485448179986,"sku":"9781496231338","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b1bac3c-a1a3-4e26-96eb-2121fb6a975b.jpg?v=1730406121","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-plains-second-edition-9781496231338","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}