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Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889

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Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 - Lauck, Jon K
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Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured, as in the classic film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as a drunken exercise in bombast and rascality. Now Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during the founding of our western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from New England and the Midwest brought ...

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Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 2020, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806167374

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Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 2010, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806141107

Hardcover