Regionalism and the Great Plains: Problems of Concept and Method

Luebke, Frederick C.

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“…Based on first-hand experience, his accounts spoke optimistically of prairie plains with grass to support a pastoral economy, coal for fuel, and adobe for buildings and fences. Gilpin's descriptions of the region worked as a motivating image to promote widespread and permanent settlement especially in the 1880s (Luebke 1984). Rather than being a deterrent, as was "The Great American Desert," the new name "Great Plains" proved to be more appealing and long-lasting.…”

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“…The term Great Plains was first used by Alexander Henry the Elder in 1776 to describe the wheat grass prairies of southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba (Luebke 1984). The name was introduced to describe a specific region of the United States by Frémont's official cartographer Preuss on his "Map of Oregon and Upper California" of 1848 (Lewis 1966).…”

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Where Are the Great Plains? A Cartographic Analysis

Rossum

Lavin

2000

The Professional Geographer

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Geographic regions all have some degree of uncertainty, though this is seldom represented on their maps. Uncertainty of the Great Plains boundary is shown here by comparing 50 previously published maps of the region. These maps were found in a variety of sources, from classic 1930s geographic works to current regional studies on the Internet. By examining this diverse collection, a distinction can be seen between those maps using primarily physical criteria to define the region and those using cultural characteristics, or a combination of these two characteristics. This distinction is supported by trends in boundary shape, size, and even the map's date of publication. The Great Plains is shown as a complex region, subject to the interpretations of individual cartographers, and can be better understood by considering all points of view rather than any single boundary line.

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Where Are the Great Plains? A Cartographic Analysis

Rossum

Lavin

2000

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“…These central grasslands, along with the Rocky Mountains, represent the best evidence that the "natural grain"of the continent runs north and south, not east and west. More important, an explicitly regionalist approach has long characterized scholarship of the Great Plains (Luebke 1984). Following the lead of Walter Prescott Webb, students of the Plains have described them as a region apart, an environment representing new challenges to a culture accustomed to the humid, wooded lands of the East (1976).…”

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Regional Ideas and the Montana-Alberta Borderlands

Morris¹

1999

Geographical Review

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The borderland concept is not often applied to the U.S. West's northern boundary, but the northwestern Great Plains have been the subject of at least two borderstraddling regional conceptions: Whoop-Up Country, based on a shared regional history; and Chinook Country, based on a shared natural environment. Both ideas can be found to varying degrees in northern Montana and southern Alberta, but as expressions of regional distinction, their significance and meaning differ sharply north and south of the international boundary. In borderlands such as these, nationalism and regionalism intersect.

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Regional Ideas and the Montana‐Alberta Borderlands

Morris

1999

Geographical Review

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ABSTRACT. The borderland concept is not often applied to the U.S. West's northern boundary, but the northwestern Great Plains have been the subject of at least two border‐straddling regional conceptions: Whoop‐Up Country, based on a shared regional history; and Chinook Country, based on a shared natural environment. Both ideas can be found to varying degrees in northern Montana and southern Alberta, but as expressions of regional distinction, their significance and meaning differ sharply north and south of the international boundary. In borderlands such as these, nationalism and regionalism intersect.

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Regionalism and the Great Plains: Problems of Concept and Method

Cited by 9 publications

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Where Are the Great Plains? A Cartographic Analysis

Where Are the Great Plains? A Cartographic Analysis

Regional Ideas and the Montana-Alberta Borderlands

Regional Ideas and the Montana‐Alberta Borderlands

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