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accommodation, xi, 16 adaptability, 2, 12, 127; community resilience and, 174; institutional arrangements as context for, 6, 18–19, 22–23 (See also cooperatives, agricultural); manufacturing innovation and, 238–39; weather and agricultural, 31 African-Americans, 61, 98, 137, 184, 251–53; education and, 102–4, 105, 110–13, 251–52 agribusiness, x; cooperatives as institutional precursors for, 173–75; corporate farming, 10–11, 12, 187; criticisms of, 192–93; and decline of family farms, 10; ethnic diversity and, xi, 181; government regulation of, 193–94; immigrant labor and, 171; incentives offered to, 173–74, 197, 198, 210, 211; as market outlet for agricultural products, 141; population growth linked to, 5; and standardized product, 192–93. See also meat producing industry; specific companies agriculture: acreage devoted to, 219; climate and weather as factor in, 1, 27, 39–41; cooperative ventures (See cooperatives, agricultural); crop diversification, 13, 55, 183; crop insurance, 55; employment compared to meat production industry and construction, 206; farm crisis of 1980s, 17, 18; federal government and, 12, 22, 36, 41, 42, 53; field crops as product , 142; irrigation and, 172, 178, 179, 182–86, 189–92, 197; land as resource for, xi–xii, 23; mechanization of, 31, 35; number of farms, 219; packaged foods and, 13, 172, 176, 208, 221, 278; small towns as dependent on, 134–35, 136, 140–42, 144, 276; subsistence agriculture by pioneers, 27–29; tenant farmers or sharecroppers and, 31, 34, 37, 53. See also agribusiness; economics, agricultural ; farming; meat producing industry Agriculture Conservation Program, 34 ALCO stores, 130, 146, 163–64, 197 Allied-Signal, 224 Ambrose, North Dakota, 137 Anderle, Craig, 153 Andersen, M. J., 64, 72, 75 Anderson, A. D., 195 anti-Semitism, 72 Arapaho Indians, 157 Asians, 184–85, 204–5, 211 associations, community, 277 Atkinson, Wilmer, 78 Augusta, Kansas, 149, 150 automobiles, 31, 34, 37, 53, 75, 110, 188–89, 218, 236, 258 aviation, infrastructure for, 23, 34, 157, 221–23; avionics, 223–24; Strategic Air Command airfields, 156 avionics, 6, 217, 223–24, 229 Bahr, Joseph, Fr.: as interview source, 211–12, 325n106 Baker, Dixie: as interview source, 204 Bandstra, Bert, 193–95 Barta, Pam, 130; as interview source, 125 Baum, L. Frank, 70–71 BEA economic data, 16–18 beets, 6, 183, 185, 186, 203; as cattle fodder, 190–91, 197; sugar factories, 172, 184–86, 203, 235 Bell, Don, 229 Bell, Earl H., 39–40 bioscience industry, 16, 124, 239, 327n25 biotechnology, 228–30 Bird, Isabella L., 321n51 birth rates, 18, 47–48, 110, 133, 159, 237, 265, 294n76 Blanchard, Iowa, 137 Bodensteiner, Carol, 75 Born in the Country (Danbom), 57 “brain drain” (out-migration of educated youth), 4, 95, 120–24 Brown, Paul and Evelyn, 40, 150–51 Brown, Roy, 35 Brown v. Board of Education, 111–12 Bryce, James, 116 buffalo, 11, 25, 63, 172 Index 350 | Index Burns, Nancy, 250 Burns Flat, Oklahoma, 157–61, 158, 159–61, 167, 169 Burrell, Gary, 224 Cameron, Roderick, 68 Capote, Truman, 179 Cargill, 187, 207–9 Carson, Rachel, 80, 86 Cather, Willa, 27, 86 cattle: beef ranching, 181, 183, 189; dairy cattle ownership, 27, 34. See also meat producing industry change. See adaptability Cheyenne Indians, 11, 26, 157 chickens, 28, 29, 32, 51, 73, 142, 192 civic-mindedness, 146–47, 165–66, 245–46 Clark, William, 222 Clinton, Oklahoma, 157–61, 167, 169, 318n100 Clutter, Henry and family, 179 Cody, William F. “Buffalo Bill,” 59–63 Cold War, 156 Coll, Patrick: as interview source, 186 colleges and universities: access to higher education, 51, 94–95, 100; attainment and education levels, 161; “brain drain” and out-migration, 4, 123; as commercial research partners, 229–30; as community assets, 116, 142, 143–44, 161, 162, 248, 257, 276; cost as barrier, 115, 119; and dislocation of the young, 4, 92–95, 120–23; enrollment in, 1, 114–15, 143–44; establishment of, 19, 28, 93, 109, 115–16, 142, 257, 290n16, 314n52; funding and support of, 2, 143–44; G.I. Bill and access to, 115; level of attainment in, 268; Morrill Act of 1862 and, 116; number of, 115–16; out-of-state attendance at, 122, 124; religious, 115–16 colonization of the Middle West, xii communications technology, 16, 223–24, 228; national and international trade and, 56; Sprint, 225; telephone service, 1, 37, 45, 51, 53 community, 277; civic-mindedness, 146–47, 165–66, 245–46; civic organizations and, 146–47; obligation to, 73; and perceptions of outsiders, 147; pressure to conform to norms, 147...

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