The center column is divided by chapter and includes references from Egan's "Notes and Sources." The right column includes periodicals used in the first section, Promise: The Great Plowup 1901-1930, as well as links to electronic collections.
Duke, C. S., & Frantz, J.B. (1961). Six thousand miles of fence: Life on the XIT Ranch of Texas. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press.
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Dawson, J. C. (1985). High plains yesterdays: From XIT days through drouth and depression. Austin, TX: Eakin Press.
Hunter, L. M. (1969). The book of years: A history of Dallam and Hartley Counties. Hereford, TX: Pioneer Book Publisher.
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Foster, M. W. (1991). Being Comanche: A social history of an American Indian community. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press.
Fehrenbach, T. R. (1974). Comanches: The destruction of a people. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Lamar, H. R. (Ed.). (1998). The new encyclopedia of the American West. New Hampshire, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press.
Rathjen, F. W. (1973). The Texas panhandle frontier. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press.
Gould, F. W. (1975). The grasses of Texas. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press.
Gregg, J. (1962). Commerce of the prairies. Philadelphia: Lippincott.
Butterbaugh Young, N. G. (1991). The tracks we followed. Amarillo, TX: Southwestern Publications.
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White, R. (1991). It's your misfortune and none of my own: A new history of the American West. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press.
Powell, John Wesly. (1878). Report on the Arid Lands. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O.
Hunter, L. M. (1969). The book of years: A history of Dallam and Hartley Counties. Hereford, TX: Pioneer Book Publisher.
Request this title via Interlibrary Loan.
Dawson, J. C. (1985). High plains yesterdays: From XIT days through drouth and depression. Austin, TX: Eakin Press.
Kansas: A guide to the sunflower state. (1939). Federal Writers Project of the WPA. New York: Viking.
American Life Histories, Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940. Library of Congress.
Toepfer, A. B. & Dreiling, A. (1966). Conquering the wind: An epic migration from the Rhine to the Volga to the plains of Kansas. V. C. Leiker (Ed.). Garwood, N.J., V. C. Leiker.
Williams, H. P. (1975). The Czar's Germans. Lincoln, NB: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
Saul, N. E. (1974). The migration of Russian-Germans to Kansas. Kansas Historical Quarterly, 40 (1).
Hoy, J. & Isern, T. (1987). Plains folk. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press.
Kansas: A guide to the sunflower state. (1939). Federal Writers Project of the WPA. New York: Viking.
Watkins, T. H. (1993). The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
Dawson, J. C. (1985). High plains yesterdays: From XIT days through drouth and depression. Austin, TX: Eakin Press.
Beard, C.A. (1939). America in midpassage. New York: MacMillan.
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Cimarron News
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Agricullture Yearbook (online 1894-1921)
Yearbook (United States, Department of Agriculture) (online 1920-1922)
Agriculture Yearbook (online 1923-1926)
Yearbook of Agriculture (online 1927-1978)
Monthly Weather Review (online 1987- )
Statistical Abstract of the United States (online access 1879-1949) via Federal Reserve Archive
Congressional Record (online access 1873- ) via HeinOnline. Trascription of the congressional debates.