Chapter 20 Where the Midwest Ends and the Great Plains Begins: A Survey / Michael J. Mullin. Introduction Crossing the Center Line: In Search of the Midwest/Great Plains Borderlands / Jon K Lauck -- Chapter 1 Geographies of the Borderlands / Christopher R. Laingen -- Chapter 2 Aerial Transect of the Central Great Plains/Midwest Borderlands / James S. Aber and Susan W. Aber -- Chapter 3 Of Space, Time, Size, Hexagons, Movement, and Memory: A Comparison of County Development in Illinois and South Dakota / James E. Davis -- Chapter 4 The "There" in "There is no There There" / Gleaves Whitney -- Chapter 5 "Nebraska is, at least, not a desert": Land Sales, False Promises, and Real Estate Borderlands on the Great Plains / Matthew S. Luckett -- Chapter 6 "The Western Coteaux!": Hamlin Garland's Experience of the MIdwest/Great Plains Borderlands / Lance Nixon -- Chapter 7 Claiming the Frontier's River: Regional Divides and the Failure of the Missouri Valley Authority, 1934-1954 / Maria Howe -- Chapter 8 Defined by Absence: Where the West Begins / Will Weaver -- Chapter 9 Exploring the Midwest/Great Plains Borderlands in Modern Women's Memoir / Rachael Hanel -- Chapter 10 Home on the Range: How Community Cookbooks Define the Middle Border / Debbie Hanson -- Chapter 11 The Great Plains Vision: Horizontal Grandeur / David Pichaske -- Chapter 12 Finding the Sub-regional Diversity in the American West: Historians and Their Search for the American Interior Borderlands / Nathalie Massip -- Chapter 13 Cinematic Representations of "Flyover Country" in Modern America / Anna Thompson Hajdik -- Chapter 14 West of the 100th Meridian: Where the Midwest Ends and the Great Plains Begins / Brad Tennant -- Chapter 15 Hiawatha and Leatherstocking: From Native Borderlands to Regional Border / Joseph D. Schiller -- Chapter 16 Exploring Midwestern v. Great Plains Regional Variation by Way of the Jewish Immigrant Experience / Mara W. Cohen -- Chapter 17 Where the Midwest Meets the Bible Belt: Using Religion to Explore the Midwest's Southwestern Edge / Jay M. Price -- Chapter 18 Beyond Aridity: Historical Environment and Shifting Regional Boundaries / Julie Courtwright -- Chapter 19 Geography Is Not Destiny: Human Agency in the Midwest/Great Plains Transition Zone / Paula M. Nelson -- Chapter 20 Where the Midwest Ends and the Great Plains Begins: A Survey / Michael J. Mullin.
Summary:
Where does the Midwest end and the Great Plains begin? And does it matter? The authors of essays in this collection believe such questions are important to understanding how regional identity forms and persists--or erodes and even disappears.
Series:
Center for Western Studies Public Affairs Series ; no. 2
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