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Review of The Nebraska Sand Hills: The Human Landscape by Charles Barron McIntosh

机译:内布拉斯加州沙丘的回顾:查尔斯·巴伦·麦金托什(Charles Barron McIntosh)

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This is a remarkable volume. The ninety-first of 107 figures is a good example of what makes this book so remarkable. Figure 91 has a baker's dozen (13) small hand-drawn sketches that show how different landowners went back to the land office and claimed an additional 480 acres (Kincaid additions) to expand their 160-acre homesteads into units that might be more viable in the semi-arid climate of central Nebraska. These 13 examples come from ten different counties, which sprawl over an area larger than three of the original 13 colonies (as illustrated in Figure 1, which goes the extra step of superimposing New England state borders on a standard Nebraska location map to give a subtle but welcomed increase in perspective). The other 105 maps are equivalently meticulous illustrations of topography, vegetation, projectile-point discoveries, journal entries, military expeditions, treaty cessions, cattle drives, land claims (under a bewildering variety of Federal and state laws), lake water chemistry, land frauds, ethnic clusters, and claim abandonments. The prose that ties these extraordinary maps together is replete with trenchant vignettes about surveyor's errors that are "evident" in some apparently mistaken land claims, settlers' perceptions of topographic sites, the architectural advantages of baled-hay houses, and the many ways in which frontier entrepreneurs were able to bend laws to accomplish goals that few in Washington or Lincoln seem to have conceived as either feasible or desirable. Woven through the maps and prose is a third parallel strand, a series of small bibliographic inserts that describe stages in the lives of a few key players who walked various parts of this huge stage while history swirled through the region.
机译:这是惊人的数量。 107个数字中的90个是使这本书如此杰出的一个很好的例子。图91上有一个面包师的十二幅小手绘草图,它们显示了不同的土地所有者如何回到土地办公室,并要求额外的480英亩土地(Kincaid新增),以将其160英亩的宅基地扩大为在内布拉斯加州中部半干旱气候。这13个示例来自十个不同的县,它们的分布范围超过了原始13个殖民地中的三个殖民地(如图1所示),这是将新英格兰州边界叠加在标准内布拉斯加州位置地图上的一个额外步骤,从而可以提供细微差别但欢迎增加观点)。其他105幅地图是对地形,植被,射弹点发现,日记条目,军事远征,条约割让,牲畜驱赶,土地所有权(在令人困惑的联邦和州法律的约束下),湖水化学,土地欺诈等方面的细致插图。 ,族裔群体和遗弃者。将这些非同寻常的地图联系在一起的散文充斥着尖刻的短片,这些短片是关于在一些显然错误的土地主张中“明显”的测量师错误,定居者对地形的理解,捆草房的建筑优势以及多种方式前沿企业家能够改变法律,以实现华盛顿或林肯似乎很少有人认为可行或可取的目标。在地图和散文中编织的是第三条平行的线,一系列的小书目插入物描述了一些关键人物的生活阶段,这些关键人物在这个历史旋涡中漫步时经历了这个巨大阶段的各个部分。

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