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Baum's "Land of Oz"... Children's fantasy or Political satire?
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Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856 in a time when America was still coming into it's own and had yet to grow past the trauma of it's birth. He lived through the Civil War, the expansion of the American West, the railroad, the electric light bulb, the motorcar, the motion picture, the airplane, and America's entry into World War One. He saw the decency of the American spirit time and again tested by the ideals, reality and corruption of his day and he infused all of these observations into a series of children's books that have continued to inspire generations of people through out the ...
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At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; ...example, in the 1930s and 1940s Walter Prescott Webb led the effort to give the organization...of view. As McCaslin puts it, Webb "always thought of himself as a...Texas materials" (p. 127). Webb also began the TSHA' s most distinctive...
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'RACE AND IDENTITY IN THE NEW WORLD' TO BE EXPLORED
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...in the New World" is the title of the 42nd Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series at The University of Texas at Arlington...annual lecture series honors the memory of Walter Prescott Webb. Webb (1888-1963) was intimately associated...
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At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...example, in the 1930s and 1940s Walter Prescott Webb led the effort to give the organization...of view. As McCaslin puts it, Webb "always thought of himself as a...Texas materials" (p. 127). Webb also began the TSHA's most distinctive...
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WRITERS' BEST OF THE WEST IN LITERATURE, TELEVISION AND FILM.(Spotlight)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...Western Authors Forrest Carter Walter Van Tilburg Clark J. Frank Dobie...Sandoz The Great Plains - Walter Prescott Webb Log of a Cowboy - Andy Adams The...Connell The Texas Rangers - Walter Prescott Webb 12 Best Western Short Stories The...
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BASEBALL IN AMERICA WILL BE EXPLORED IN LECTURES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...American dream and is the subject of the 41st Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series coming up Thursday, March 9, at...Violent Life of Tyrus Raymond Cobb." The 2006 Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures will be published by Texas A...
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A Breed So Rare: The Life of J. R. Parten, Liberal Texas Oil Man
Magazine article from: Business History Review
; ...amazed at the continuing influence of Walter Prescott Webb (d. 1963), former professor...1998, is yet another example of Webb's long reach, for the title of...J. R. Parten was taken from a Webb comment. Webb, who knew him...
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FRONTIER EXPANSION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Magazine article from: Contemporary Economic Policy
; ...Thomas, 1973; Toynbee, 1978; Webb, 1964). Such frontier-based...frontier thesis was further extended by Walter Prescott Webb to explain not just American but...continued to modify the Turner-Webb frontier thesis to describe processes...
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Captain L. H. McNelly, Texas Ranger: The Life and Times of a Fighting Man
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; ...in 1935 with the publication of Walter Prescott Webb's classic account, The Texas...generations of Texans as scripture, Webb's study preserved and perpetuated...institution immortalized by Professor Webb. In sum, the authors set out on...
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Still high, wide, and handsome? Environmental history of the West
Magazine article from: Montana; The Magazine of Western History
; ...before midcentury, writers such as Walter Prescott Webb and James Malin insisted on the...control and to lionize conquest, both Webb and Malin recognized the significance...broadened the perspective inherited from Webb and Malin. Beginning with Roderick...
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Captain L. H. McNelly, Texas Ranger: the Life and Times of a Fighting Man.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...in 1935 with the publication of Walter Prescott Webb's classic account, The Texas...generations of Texans as scripture, Webb's study preserved and perpetuated...institution immortalized by Professor Webb. In sum, the authors set out on...
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