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Selected Bibliography Adams, F. G. “Irrigation in Kansas.” Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 7 (1879–1880): 77–83. Alexander, W. E. History of Iowa. Sioux City: Western Publishing Company, 1882. Alston, Lee J. “Farm Foreclosures in the United States during the Interwar Period.” Journal of Economic History 43 (1983): 885–903. Andersen, M. J. Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005. Arnould, Richard J. “Changing Patterns of Concentration in American Meat Packing, 1880–1963.” Business History Review 45 (1971): 18–34. Artz, Georgeanne M., Peter F. Orazem, and Daniel M. Otto. “Measuring the Impact of Meat Packing and Processing Facilities in Nonmetropolitan Counties: A Difference-in-Differences Approach.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89 (2007): 557–70. Aurner, Clarence Ray. History of Education in Iowa. 5 vols. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1914–1920. Bach, Robert. Changing Relations: Newcomers and Established Residents in US Communities, A Report to the Ford Foundation by the National Board of the Changing Relations Project. New York: Ford Foundation, 1993. Bader, Robert Smith. Hayseeds, Moralizers, and Methodists: The TwentiethCentury Image of Kansas. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988. Barker, Bruce, and Ivan Muse. “One-Room Schools of Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota, California, and Wyoming.” Research in Rural Education 3 (1986): 127–30. Barnes, Lela. “North Central Kansas in 1887–1889.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 39 (1963): 267–323. Barnouw, Erik. Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Barr, Virginia D. “The Diary of Virginia D. (Jones-Harlan) Barr” (1940). Smith County Historical Society, Smith Center, KS. Bateman, Fred. “The ‘Marketable Surplus’ in Northern Dairy Farming: New Evidence by Size of Farm in 1860.” Agricultural History 52 (1978): 345–63. Bauer, George R. Trails, Rails, and Tales: Olathe’s First 150 Years. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star Books, 2004. Beal, Leonard. Centennial of Traill County, 1875–1975. Hillsboro, ND: Northwestern Bank of Hillsboro, 1975. Courtesy of North Dakota State University Library, Fargo. 336 | Selected Bibliography Beebe, B. W. “Application of Geological Principles to Exploration for Oil and Gas in Kansas.” Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 67 (1964): 256–80. Bell, Earl H. “Changing Family Situations in a Small Community.” Scientific Monthly 35 (1932): 462–65. ———. Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community: Sublette, Kansas. Washington , DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Rural Life Studies, 1942. Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985. Bennett, Edward H. Plan of Minneapolis Prepared under the Direction of the Civic Commission. Minneapolis: Civic Commission, 1917. Billingsley, Carolyn Earle. “Settlement Patterns in Saline County, Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 52 (1993): 107–28. Bird, Isabella L. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, edited by Daniel J. Boorstin. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. Bishop, Rebecca, and John Leatherman, Fiscal Conditions and Trends: Finney County 2007. Manhattan: Kansas State University Research and Extension, 2007. ———. Fiscal Conditions and Trends: Stafford County, 2008. Manhattan: Kansas State University Research and Extension, 2008. Bivans, Venola Lewis. “The Diary of Luna E. Warner.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 35 (1969): 276–311. Blair, Ed. History of Johnson County, Kansas. Lawrence: Standard Publishing Company, 1915. Blanchard, Leola Howard. Conquest of Southwest Kansas. Wichita, KS: Wichita Eagle Press, 1931. Blank, Steven C. The End of Agriculture in the American Portfolio. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1998. Blau, Peter M., and Otis D. Duncan. The American Occupational Structure. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1967. Bloomenshine, L. L. Prairie around Me: Childhood Memories. San Diego: Raphael Publications, 1972. Bodensteiner, Carol. Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl. Des Moines: Rising Sun Press, 2008. Bogue, Allan G. From Prairie to Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. ———. “The Land Mortgage Company in the Early Plains States.” Agricultural History 25 (1951): 20–33. Boyne, David H. “Changes in the Income Distribution in Agriculture.” Journal of Farm Economics 47 (1965): 1213–24. Brant, Barry. “Alternative Strategic Financial Plans for Garden City Co-op.” MAB thesis, Kansas State University, 2008. Broadway, Michael J., and Donald D. Stull. “Meat Processing and Garden City, KS: Boom and Bust.” Journal of Rural Studies 22 (2006): 55–66. 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