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Bibliography: pages 391-418.
The Great Plains in National and global perspective -- Climate of the Great Plains -- Soils, plants, and animals native to the Plains -- An old and forbidding land -- Plains history immediately following the Louisiana Purchase -- Adapted ways of the Olains Indian and the Texans -- "The American desert," a lands to cross -- Adapted ways of the early cattlemen-- Sheepmen's days and ways -- Hesitation along the ninety-eighth Meridian -- Settlement Era -- Civilization tested by drought, dust, and depopulation -- Unsuitable Governmental Institutions for the Plains -- Unadapted land and finance policies for the plains -- Sutland and Yonland communities -- Hinterland rold of the Great Plains -- Minority status of the people -- Traditional minorities in the Plains -- Minorities in Rural areas -- Minorities in the towns -- Need to adapt or get out -- New ways for water, land, and plow -- Specially suitable institutions -- Keys for survival -- Growth of regionalism in America -- A practical test of regionalism in the plains -- Oppoirtunities and tools for regionalism in the Plains.
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